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Redirect or advertising project

Thu Feb 22, 2018 6:00 am

Hello How are?

Here what i plan to do i want to give free internet to public in a park
I want to find if we can redirect connection to a broadcasting computer that will display any publicity like 4 time per hours
or can Mikrotik support this function?

I am still not decided what login service to use
Facebook or simply email.
Anyway i will try and test different solution but mainly i really wish help for the advertising like redirect active login to an proxy that will display 15-second publicity thanks for your help
 
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Re: Redirect or advertising project

Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:57 am

You can do this easily with or without hotspot. You can use the web proxy to redirect to your server then pass on from there. I have deployed something similar recently.
 
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Re: Redirect or advertising project

Sun Feb 25, 2018 10:43 pm

With hotspot configuration can you share how you do please if you did almost same as my project thanks
would help very much thanks
 
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Re: Redirect or advertising project

Thu Mar 01, 2018 11:58 am

There was (still is ?) a function for regular adverts (via REDIRs) available, for MT-hotspots. However, this was/is not a solution for wide production use, as it does a REDIR simply time-based.
Which disturbes the rendering of a web page just being requested. (Browser must request multiple objects to render the actual page; the REDIR for an ad will break this.)
Using a real proxy, which analyzes the actual web contents passing thru, these periodic REDIRs are much less harmful
Anyway, not only because of this, few years ago, I developed a real proxy, modifying the HTML-stream "on the fly". To inject ads into org web page, for example.
So the pitfall mentioned above is avoided.

MT is not the bets platform for hotspots with above-basic requirements. Go, openwrt/LEDE.

General problem here: HTTPS ...
 
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Re: Redirect or advertising project

Thu Mar 01, 2018 12:52 pm

as far as advertising, yes you can set this within hotspot user profile. the advert will pop up every xx min, and in case of it been blocked, a reminder will show on the browser so that user can click and visit the page. If they don't, no Internet access.

very annoying but if they are getting free wifi in a park, I think it's fair.
 
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Re: Redirect or advertising project

Sat May 26, 2018 1:51 pm

There was (still is ?) a function for regular adverts (via REDIRs) available, for MT-hotspots. However, this was/is not a solution for wide production use, as it does a REDIR simply time-based.
Which disturbes the rendering of a web page just being requested. (Browser must request multiple objects to render the actual page; the REDIR for an ad will break this.)
Using a real proxy, which analyzes the actual web contents passing thru, these periodic REDIRs are much less harmful
Anyway, not only because of this, few years ago, I developed a real proxy, modifying the HTML-stream "on the fly". To inject ads into org web page, for example.
So the pitfall mentioned above is avoided.

MT is not the bets platform for hotspots with above-basic requirements. Go, OpenWRT/LEDE.

General problem here: HTTPS ...
Hello can you share how you do with topology
I was thinking using my qnap for proxy and web broadcasting for the schedule publicity
like every 15 minutes redirect to a public ip then the public ip broadcast then publicity of any time schedule
if you did that before maybe we can understand each other and make my learning process fast thanks
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