We are running a captive portal WIFI solution.
When people connect to it websites such as Google and Facebook are blocked.
We want to allow users to go to our partners websites but they have network requests to Google and Facebook.
The only way around this that I can think of is running a headless chrome instance on our server and allow our users to connect to that. Our users would need to control the headless instance from their browser.
Is this possible?
Does any one have any other suggestions of how I can get around this problem?
I'm currently working om something like that https://github.com/KaanDoesNothing/Browser-Proxy
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I'm trying to determine if I can access any browser api for chrome OS that will allow me to identify the device that its running on when the application has been force-installed in kiosk mode as a PWA.
We're running into exactly the same issue right now. The correct path seems to be to create a PWA and to connect it to a (pre-installed) extension that has access to the enterprise.deviceAttributes:
See https://developers.chrome.com/apps/migration:
"If there is a capability that your Chrome App has that the regular web platform can't provide, it might be available as an extension API. In this case, you use a progressive web app together with an externally connectable extension your web app can send messages to."
enterprise.deviceAttributes are only accessible if the calling App/Site is pre-installed to the device and not loaded dynamically, so it cannot run in the PWA by design.
But with this tutorial, it seems possible:
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/messaging#external-webpage
We're looking into that right now and will post our progess here.
So this is kind of odd.
My scenario:
Web server running IIS, hosting asp.net applications
SQL server
As they are on separate servers, I had to set up kerberos delegation. I have got this working.
So a user goes to asp.net application hosted on the web server, and it authenticates them to the SQL server.
On one of my web apps, when they go to it in Chrome, I get the error page with SQL authentication failed due to Anonymous user. If they go to the same app in IE, it works correctly.
Here is the really odd part - if they then go to it again in Chrome, it works!
So I guess there is some inconsistency in how Chrome authenticates.
I found someone suggesting it might be to do with the IIS negotiation providers, but as it needs kerberos delegation I have to have "Negotiate" as the first option or it fails completely.
I guess I could just tell users they have to use IE, but I would prefer to get it to work in Chrome.
Any thoughts?
(Possibly similar to Kerberos not working with Chrome but it's all on intranet zone, so don't think there's anything to whitelist)
There's a recent update in Google Chrome's security in which they don't allow using the geolocation and accessing webcam when the site is not 'https'.
Is there a way to disable this for local IP addresses? We're only using it in out intranet so there's no way to put https in it.
Hope somebody can help me
Thanks
It only works on localhost, but not on the internal network.
The best I can suggest is to install a local page on each user's localhost. The page, when loaded, would store the user's location, record it in memory, then call an endpoint on your local network to transmit the data.
I have asked a similar question before here I sort of fixed it but im still facing a similar issue. Every time I try to load localhost, port 8095, I receive this error message in Google Chrome:
Google Chrome's connection attempt to localhost was rejected. The
website may be down, or your network may not be properly configured.
If there is a way to fix it, please tell me,
If not, please could someone inform me how to reset IIS to its original settings. Or if I can reset Windows Features so I can re-install ISS from scratch.
My website uses ASP with a connection to a SQL Server database (2012). Basic HTML pages also don't load under the URL, localhost:8095/
The servers were stopped because 2 services within administrative tools had stopped. World Wide Web Publishing Service and Web Management Service
I'm developing a Google Chrome Extenstion, I wonder if there is anyway to show desktop notifications even if Chrome is closed, maybe some sort of background process or service? Kindly advice and guide me if it is not possible also. Thanks.
If you request a "background" permission your extension's background page will be able to show notifications even with Chrome windows closed.
When any installed hosted app, packaged app, or extension has "background" permission, Chrome runs (invisibly) as soon as the user logs into their computer—before the user launches Chrome. The "background" permission also makes Chrome continue running (even after its last window is closed) until the user explicitly quits Chrome.
If you use Google Chrome, you can enable a new Gmail feature that shows desktop notifications for new messages. Go to "Settings", and enable chat notifications and mail notifications to see a small bubble when you get a new message.
Secondly: Using WCF or Windows Services:
you have to develop simple client on machine polling a central service for alerts. Each alert should have a unique id so each client can deal with idem-potency
I Hope that this will be helpfull to you
Regards: Azeem Raavi