[Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?

[John Abreau]

Oops, there's a typo in the second command, the _ should be a |:

> sid=`cat ./session-cookies | grep _sid | cut -d$'\011' -f7`


On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:03 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's what finally worked for phpbb, if it helps:
>
> > wget -q -O /dev/null --save-cookies=./session-cookies \
> >     --post-data='username=JohnDoe&password=foobar&login=Login' \
> >     'http://www.example.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=login'
> >
> > sid=`cat ./session-cookies _ grep _sid | cut -d$'\011' -f7`
> >
> > wget -q -O page.html \
> >     --post-data="username=JohnDoe&password=foobar&sid=$sid" \
> >     "http://www.example.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=108191"
>
> This gets the session id from the login page, then uses it to fetch topic
> #108191 from forum #1.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:48 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Another option would be to figure out how to fake the browser
>> authentication with curl or wget, so you can script it. I did this a few
>> months ago for a phpbb forum.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:16 AM, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I recently became the proud owner of a Roku 3 box.  Very happy with it
>>> minus one or two small details.  For grins, I brought it with me on
>>> vacation, and immediately ran into the problem that the hotel wifi
>>> requires an authentication page be filled out, which the Roku can't do
>>> since it doesn't have a browser.
>>>
>>> Googling around on my laptop for a while, I've seen the following
>>> solutions for this problem, some of which involve doing things with my
>>> Linux laptop (Kubuntu 13.10 currently):
>>>
>>> 1) Change my laptop's MAC address temporarily to that of the Roku,
>>> authenticate, then try to connect with the Roku.  Sounds reasonable,
>>> except that it didn't work.  Not sure if I didn't change the mac address
>>> right.  Might have to retry this, as it's the option that doesn't
>>> require more hardware.  I found conflicting instructions on how to do
>>> this on the command line, and every single page that talks about Network
>>> Manager shows different options, since it changes so much and is
>>> different betweek KDE and Gnome, etc.
>>>
>>> 2) Add a USB WiFi stick onto my laptop and set it up as a
>>> router/repeater/whatever: I already have one, so nothing to buy but I
>>> would have to bring it with me.  Don't have it right now so I couldn't
>>> try it out, but here too I found lots of incomplete or unclear info.  If
>>> there's a straightforward way to do this, please let me know.  If I need
>>> to upgrade to the latest Kubuntu I'll do that.
>>>
>>> 3) Pick up a travel router and use it to NAT.  I see differing
>>> information on whether the hotel network will see one MAC address or
>>> each device's MAC address. This option really only works if the hotel
>>> has wired internet (the hotel I stay at the most does).  But apparently
>>> you have to run it in a specific mode that not all support, but I
>>> couldn't find a consistent name for that mode, other than "Bridged isn't
>>> what you want".  Some pages mentioned that some units can go "wifi to
>>> wifi" with half the bandwidth.  I'll have to find that link.  Maybe it
>>> does sending and receiving on different channels or something like
>>> that.  I would be OK with spending money on this if need be, and I knew
>>> it would work.  I also have a WRT54G I'm not using that I could test it
>>> out with before buying something smaller.
>>>
>>> Did I miss any options?
>>>
>>> Does anyone have recent info on how to do any of these?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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