On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Dan Williams wrote:
The current connectivity checking code is built-but-inactive in F17, you can enable it by adding these entries to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf: [connectivity] uri=http://<url> interval=120 the URL is expected to return one or both of: 1) an HTTP header named "X-NetworkManager-Status" with the value of "online" 2) an document body consisting only of the text "NetworkManager is online" (can be customized by an option in the config file) This method lets NM (in the future) detect captive portals and will
Note that such a scheme has already been setup for other software at: http://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt It returns "OK" and is guaranteed never to do any redirects, so you can detect hotspots. dnssec-triggerd will use this but we hope this functionality will go into NM itself, so that NM can actually run dnssec-trigger-control commands directly, and incorporate all the gui elements from dnssec-trigger-panel. to understand my babbling, yum install dnssec-trigger, start dnssec-trigger-panel, see "probe", "probe results" and "hotspot mode" I am looking forward to the day that only dnssec-triggerd (or its incorporation into NM) will touch /etc/resolv.conf Paul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
