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that you uploaded, or you can change the Welcome page in the captive portal authentication profile in the

WebUI.

An example that will create the same page as displayed in Figure 50 is shown below. The part in red will redirect

the user to the web page you originally setup. For this to work, please follow the procedure described above in

this document.

<html>

<head>

{

function readCookie(name)

{

var nameEQ = name + "=";

var ca = document.cookie.split(';');

for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++)

{

var c = ca[i];

while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);

if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring

(nameEQ.length,c.length);

}

return null;

}

var cookieval = readCookie('url');

if (cookieval.length>0) document.write("<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\"

content=\"2;url=http://"+cookieval+"\""+">");

}

</script>

</head>

<b>User Authenticated </b>

<p>In 2 seconds you will be automatically redirected to your original web page</p>

<p> Press control-d to bookmark this page.</p>

</FORM>

</font>

</body>

</html>

Customizing Authentication Reply-Message to Captive Portal Users

In AOS-W 6.4.x and earlier versions, captive portal authentication displayed pre-defined strings such

Authentication Successful and Authentication Failed to users in the log-in page. So, response sent by

RADIUS server through the Reply-Message was not forwarded by Authentication module to the Captive

Portal module.

AOS-W 6.5 introduces the support for customizing authentication Reply-Message to captive portal users in the

log-in page for better user experience. The purpose behind the Reply-Message is to return appropriate

information to the captive portal system.

For example, ClearPass can send a RADIUS-reject for various reasons, such as, authentication failed, bandwidth

limit exceeded, max. session reached, max. devices used. In AOS-W 6.4.x, the user returns Authentication

failed message for all the reasons. In AOS-W 6.5, ClearPass can now include the reason why it is rejecting in the

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