0001072: performance optimization regarding user-agents - PacketFence

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0001072

PacketFence

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2010-09-21 13:43

2011-01-26 15:38

Reporter

obilodeau

Assigned To

rbalzard

Priority

normal

Severity

feature

Reproducibility

N/A

Status

closed

Resolution

fixed

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Target Version

1.9.1

Fixed in Version

1.9.1

Summary

0001072: performance optimization regarding user-agents

Description

By default we allow every query to be redirected and reach packetfence for the captive portal operation.

In a lot of cases, this means that a lot of non-user initiated queries reach PacketFence and waste his resources for nothing since they are not from browsers.

iTunes, Windows update, MSN Messenger, Google Desktop, ... there are many cases.

So far, we blacklisted clients known to be misbehaving. However, a completely different approach can be taken: whitelist only known browsers.

This has the nasty side-effect of being unfriendly with less popular browsers and devices so it is disabled by default.

This bug is opened to write the documentation related to this performance optimization in the admin guide.

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fixed in git revision

fixed in mtn revision

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0000879

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obilodeau

captive portal "denial of service"

Notes
(0001680) rbalzard (administrator) 2010-09-21 14:32	fixed in revision a7f7631efd42b01955140b68d5229a8b29dea334

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-09-21 13:43	obilodeau	New Issue
2010-09-21 13:43	obilodeau	Status	new => assigned
2010-09-21 13:43	obilodeau	Assigned To	=> rbalzard
2010-09-21 14:32	rbalzard	Note Added: 0001680
2010-09-21 14:32	rbalzard	Status	assigned => resolved
2010-09-21 14:32	rbalzard	Resolution	open => fixed
2010-09-21 14:43	obilodeau	Relationship added	related to 0000879
2010-09-21 18:09	obilodeau	Fixed in Version	=> 1.9.1
2011-01-26 15:38	obilodeau	Status	resolved => closed