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Question

get popup page when someone connect to wireless router

Mar 27, 2016 6:35AM PDT

Hello Guys, i have TP-Link TL-1043ND and DD-WRT firmware installed, I have a page called index.php. however, i want to make this page popup when someone connects to the router just like captive portal in hotspots, i have tried to miss with everything in hotspots section in the router but can't make it.

do you have any idea?

any help would be greatly appreciated

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That will take you writing an app.
Mar 27, 2016 8:20AM PDT

Said app will check the router for a new connection on the interval you ask for and pop as you programmed it. Use the programming language you know to create this.

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lacking code knowledge
Mar 27, 2016 8:44AM PDT

Exactly the same idea was on my mind, but the problem i lack the knowledge for router coding, it's a simple line i have tried a lot of things, the algorithm is something like when a user get an ip he will be prompt for sign-in. but couldn't do it, I'm also trying to figure out how the dedicated hotspot services (like hotspotsystem) do this with their own firmwares.

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Since a router has no display.
Mar 27, 2016 3:13PM PDT

To me this sounds more like an app you put on your PC and not firmware.

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Maybe you need to know why the message popup is an app.
Mar 27, 2016 5:09PM PDT
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a prompt to Sign-in not a message to already connected user
Mar 28, 2016 8:25AM PDT

I've used NET SEND in the past and i understand why it was terminated due to a security leak that it made, when it was exploited easily.

but my idea here is not to send a message to an already connected user, my idea is what could i use to prompt a user trying to connect my wireless network that he should visit a sign-in page (hijack all his requests and forward it to my sign-in page URL).

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That's a different request.
Mar 28, 2016 8:50AM PDT

I re-read the top post and your last reply is something very different. You may need to start a new discussion but my thought here is that such would require a team of programmers that do such work.

I think that's why most folk settle on login systems and blocking devices.