Resolving Cert Errors on Captive Portal

[pops106]

Hello,

I have got a customer now successfully using the Captive Portal using ssl so their usernames and passwords are not sent in clear text across the Wifi / Network.

It has taken weeks to resolve the issue due to the lack of documentation around the start.php file needing to be edited, I guess because this is more of a hack then a fix.

Then the cert we had wasn't supported by all devices etc so we are replacing it with a verisign cert now.

My question is why is this so difficult and why isn't it an option just within the untangle gui ?

I happened to be on another of our customers sites today, they are using a competitors product which I wont mention but I connected to the wifi, tried to browse the web it redirected me to http(s)://whatever.product, got a loverly padlock with green background filling me with confidence. I logged in, it sent me back off to google or whatever my homepage is and everything was error free.

I need to understand why it is considered to be such an issue for untangle to implement.

I really do love the product and want to push it into more of our customers but it is just this problem which is bugging me.

Hope you can help.

[mrunkel]

I'm not sure what you are referring to.

The user supplied code change to start.php has been incorporated into the codbase as of 9.2.1 I think, so http redirect to https shouldn't be an issue. Https redirect without an error is not possible without creating a proxy.