by HSNMSupport »
08 Feb 2018, 15:08
Hi Gerard,
what you suggest it's possible, but not through an API. To be able to log users in without visit welcome portal you have to, as I mentioned in my previous post, develop an App that simulate a surf request and so all the process that happens in order to get an user registered and logged in. The App should manages and forwards data to the Mikrotik Gateway who then start communication with the HSNM (here a Radius client/server exchange happens) which get back matched data to the Gateway. At the end Gateway provides the ok to the user to be able to surf.
During the radius client/server exchange process, not only is performed passage of user credentials but also a chapid and a chapchallenge process is performed (this process is based on how the Gateway works. Note that not only mikrotik works in this way).
It's the Gateway that manages the process with the HSNM. That's why it's not possible to just use an API call to perform something like this.
I hope to have clarified.
Best Regards.