ussjoin / portalsmash

Utility to connect to open WiFi and click through "captive portal"-type agreements.

• 👋 Hi, I’m @ussjoin, known elsewhere as Brendan Francis O'Connor. My main site is https://ussjoin.com.
• 👀 I’m interested in information security defined broadly---including resilience, policy, arms control, and human-centered design.
• 📻 I also do ham radio; see https://k3qb.radio.
• ⚖️ I'm also an attorney; generally, not yours, though I'm an ARRL Volunteer Counsel, and I can at least take an email if you think you have some specific reason you want to talk to me.
• 📫 How to reach me: [email protected].

portalsmash's Issues

The Apple URL is not a reliable check

Just yesterday I stumbled across an access point (a Fon one) which passed the Apple URL (because it's well-known) but really had a captive portal.

I've replaced it with my home page and it works like a charm now.

`iwlist wlan0 scan` returns a single result when there could be more

For note, I can successfully connect to an open wifi network. The issue is with a single iwlist scan, only one result is returned. If I run iwlist myself, I may get one result or I may get 24. The more times I run it, the more results I seem to have. Nothing else is changing in reference to the location of the antenna. I am not sure why there is a difference in the scans. My question is can iwlist be run multiple times and concatenate the results?

Device: Raspberry pi
OS: raspbian
wlan0: Alfa - RTL8187 Wireless Adapter

Scan failed

I can't seem to figure out why every scan fails. I have both my laptop's internal wireless card and a popular external USB one as well. The scan fails on both interfaces. It also seems to permanently disable my network manager and wireless functionality after I exit the program, but restarting the networking service fixes that problem.