Re: Pop-Up blockers

We found this to be annoyance for our users that have some kind of pop-up b=
locker whether it be IE7, IE6 w/ XPSP2, FF, or 3rd party, so our solution f=
or time being was to extend the renewal idle timeout to 24 hours (NoCat gat=
eway daemon gets restarted at 1:00am daily by cron job) and take out the re=
newal popup html code from the login_ok.html file on NoCat authentication s=
erver.  In other words, the login user gets access to Internet all day with=
out having to re-authenticate unless the user gets a different IP address l=
ater on.  This poses some problems when a new user gets the old user's IP a=
ddress that has already been authenticated. (Temporary solution is the have=
 a bigger DHCP dynamic IP address pool than the average login users.  DHCP =
server would give the users same IP address as long as possible and would n=
ot reallocated old IP address to another user unless all the new IP address=
es from the pool are used up)

Another solution (which I am working on) is to modify the gateway source co=
de to monitor packet activities from IPtables and if there any packet in-ac=
tivities for number of defined minutes, flushed associated IP address from =
the IPtables chain.  The users would have to re-authenticate again if they =
tries to get back on again.

The problem I have now is how to deal with users that have browsers with pr=
oxy settings enabled.


Shawn
Utah State University IT

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] =
On Behalf Of Eduardo Bejar
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NoCat] Pop-Up blockers

Hi everyone,

I=B4ve been reading the mailing list archives and haven't found a definitive
answer about this issue. Regarding pop-up blockers, how are you handling
the NoCat pop-up window that opens after a user authenticates?

Have you found a way to load this window despite the use of pop-up
blockers, specially the one included in IE7?

Thanks and regards,

Edo




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