I can get a DSID cookie, e.g. by logging in through a browser and finding the value: how do I pass this to openconnect? Is there a general mechanism for setting key-value pairs? On 09/11/2015 10:31 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 10:06 -0400, Thomas Lippincott wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm in the unenviable position of needing to connect to a university VPN >> from a linux laptop, and it appears that there is a barrier where one >> needs to log in via a university page before proceeding to the actual >> VPN log in (at least, that's what I gather from the output, I've >> included the redacted output below). I was wondering if this is >> something that has come up before and has a known solution/workaround, >> or what the best way to proceed. Thanks! > Right. OpenConnect currently has some hacks to 'parse' the basic > standard HTML forms that the Juniper server offers, but many systems > wrap it with other non-standard pages and authentication methods. > > We *really* need to do this with a proper HTML renderer (or web > browser). Rather than parsing just the special cases we know about, we > should pass the whole HTML page out to be presented to the user. > > If anyone feels like working on that, it would be much appreciated. It > shouldn't even be *that* hard. > > In the meantime, one option is to try using a real web browser to go > through the process. And once you get to the stage where you're > authenticated and you have a DSID cookie, *then* invoke openconnect. >
