Autowifi

[Fi8sVrs]

AutoWifi is an application which try to login automatically on wifi hotspots with web-based authentification. This app stay in systray, and process secure login when a SSID is matched by AutoWifi. The goal is to remove the hassle of doing web-based authent for theses kinds of free hotspots, letting you surf as if you were on your lan. AutoWifi is a linux app, and it will never be released for others platforms. It's a pygtk application, and it's released under the GPL2 terms.

Supports for free hotspots (thru SSL, and server certificats validation):

• FreeWifi
  
• FON
  
• Neuf
  
• ...
  

It's an alpha release, but it works for me (for freewifi, neuf, and fon spots).

AutoWifi doesn't provide accounts for these free hotspots ;-). The first time you meet a SSID known by AutoWifi, it will prompt you to enter your account, if needed, thru a GUI. Accounts informations are saved according the XDG freedesktop specs. (in file ~/.config/autowifi/autowifi.conf). To modify your account, just edit this file.

States :

The AutoWifi Icon in your systray can take 3 forms :

• : AutoWifi is running, but no known Wifi/SSID are matched.
  
• : A matched SSID is well authentified. AutoWifi will try to keep the connection on, by fetching it each 60 seconds.
  
• : A matched SSID is not well authentified. Put your mouse on the icon, to show the tooltip, to get more infos about the trouble. In this state, AutoWifi will try each 5 seconds to re-authent.
  

Todo

• 
  
• support for Mc Donalds hotspots
  
• use desktopcouch instead of xdg config (?)
  
• ensure rock solid
  

How it's working (for developpers)

Autowifi use the dbus of networkmanager to be aware about ssid changes. When a new ssid is set, Autowifi will match the newly ssid with its list of known plugins (thru a regex on ssid). If it founds one, it will run it, to process form authent with python-twill

Autowifi use a home made plugin system. Plugins are easy to implement (see the _virgin.py one).

Plugins are located in /usr/share/autowifi/plugins (for the main plugins) or in your home directory (in ~/.config/autowifi/plugins), for your local plugins.

A plugin is a python file (which doesn't start with an underscore), which should contain a Wifi class.

Here is a real example :

from twill.commands import *

class Wifi(object):

match = "freewifi" # regex re.I !

def __init__(self):

pass

def connectWithAuthent(self,login,passwd):

go("http://test-debit.free.fr/")

if "Pour vous connecter au service FreeWiFi" in show():

formclear("1")

fv("1", "login", login)

fv("1", "password", passwd)

submit()

if "CONNEXION AU SERVICE REUSSIE" in show():

return True # authent reached

else:

return False # authent failed

else:

return True # already authentified !

Notes :

• match's attribut define the regular expression, to match the current SSID. It's case insensitive, and really needed ;-)
  
• a plugin should have a connect() or a connectWithAuthent() method, but not both ! These methods should return a boolean (True=authent granted / false=authent failed), or an error string (for other reasons).
  
• a plugin can use the python twill commands to mechanize http process.
  

The easiest way to start hacking, is to duplicate the _virgin.py template (in ~/.config/autowifi/plugins).

If you developp a plugin which could be interesting for the community. Feel free to send it to me, and I will package it in a future release.

Installation

IMPORTANT : my PPA is not up-to-date (due to quickly/launchpad trouble) you will find latest releases here

AutoWifi is available in manatlan's ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:manatlan/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install autowifi

The repository is here :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/manatlan/ppa/ubuntu lucid main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/manatlan/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

Source Repository

Available on launchpad

(manatlan2) autowifi

[Nicotin]

Nu merge ... sau gresesc eu undeva dar nu cred ....

[dark-angel]

Pare useless, adica... nimeni nu moare daca da 2-3 click-uri sa se uite daca-i reteaua wifi disponibila... daca ai nevoie.