IITJ Auth

Never spend 10 seconds doing something by hand when you can spend 1 month ~~failing~~ Succeeding to automate it.

-Someone

Automates the Firewall Authentication at IITJ. No more sign into network prompts while using IITJ Wifi! This app does everything automatically once started.

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Features

One-time setup hustle.
Quick Tile to access the app.
Battery friendly.
Implemented according to Material Design guidelines.

OEM not supported?:

Login Service might fail to work on OEMs like Vivo, which have their own captive portal implementations or aggressive service-killing policies.

How it works?

The authentication process is fairly easy, consists of making 2 requests. First a GET request to gstatic generate_204 which redirects us to the Captive portal of the WiFi and gives us the magic key required to make a POST request with the username and password to the redirected Url. Trick is to run this script whenever android see's a wifi has a captive portal, and after that persist the auth session by pinging the keepalive url using the WorkManger API.

Reporting bugs and feature requests?

Create an issue with the given templates.