Unfortunately, I had to subscribe to some Internet provider and found that he uses Mikrotik Proxy. First of all he restricted my access to a single MAC address, however I access the network now through 2 laptops and desktop machine simultaneously 😀 What was really annoying is that I have to create a session with the server by logging in using a username and password using their web interface every time I start my machine, so no internet connectivity unless I open my browser and login to their server..Boring :S I tried to login using Python/httplib2 using my plain username and password but it did not pay. So I inspected the Login web interface and found that the password is salted (Some HEX numbers and my password in between) then MD5ed before it is sent to server…interesting!
It was like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/md5.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function doLogin() {
document.sendin.username.value = document.login.username.value;
document.sendin.password.value = hexMD5('\330' + document.login.password.value + '\155\153\216\266\076\244\006\261\251\237\164\021\307\047\212\015');
document.sendin.submit();
return false;
}
//-->
</script>
At first I manually MD5ed my “salted” password as I found in the Login page html using Python/md5 module and tried to send it programmatically , But it failed again!
I noticed that the salt changed when I refreshed the page, so at the beginning of my script I grab the Login page html/content and using Python/re REGEX module I extracted the salt from the javascript code and added my password in between and using Python/simplejson I JSONed my POST request payload, But it failed again:S
I suspected that I miss some thing I can not see through Google Chrome Web Inspector Network sniffer, So I tried Wireshark..yes Wireshark😀 to sniff myself and found that my login POST request payload/content is encoded not JSONed, which I did not notice since Chrome Inspector viewed my POST request payload in human readable format, then I changed my code to encode the POST request content to be encoded using Python/urllib.urlencode, tried again and it SUCCEEDED this time 😉
Added the Python shebang at the start of script and added it to the Ubuntu startup programs list and my username/password passed, so I get automatically logged in every time I boot my Ubuntu 😀
You can check my code here https://github.com/montaro/mikrotik-autologin/
yet another neo.. Ahmed El Refaey 