My company has a guest wifi network for use by non-company issued machines. Since getting my MacBook Air recently, I've wanted to bring it in and use it around the office.
I can easily connect to the (unsecured) guest wifi network but then the first time I try to access a website I get a login page where I need to use my company userid/password to gain access. This is kind of like it works in a hotel.
This works fine except if I put my machine to sleep and wake it up again, I need to re-login again. This re-login happens all day long. Very annoying. I'm wondering if I can configure my Mac to automatically login for me. Is there a way of configuring the wireless networking on my Mac to automatically pass my userid/password for when upon connecting?
Best Answer
If the login functions through a Webpage, it's probable that the closest you could come is to write a script to fill in the form for you.
If you're lucky, the login form might use a HTML GET request so you could to bookmark the page that logs you in. Pay attention to what redirects occur once you login. If you see something like this:
http://example.com?name=fred&pword=qwerty, you can bookmark that and go to it to log in automatically.This is unlikely, though, because it isn't a very secure choice for your company. The form probably uses a POST request.