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Customizing the external pages

This section explains how to customize the three external pages: Welcome, Login error,
and Goodbye.
Creating new
In contrast to the internal pages, the external pages do not have any restrictions on their
construction since they reside on a third-party server.
external pages
To create new external pages, use the fully-commented samples provided on the CD (in
the folder \HTML) as a starting point. For your reference, these samples are also
included at the end of this chapter.
Activating new To activate new external pages, you must define their URLs using the Colubris-AVPair
value string when you create a RADIUS profile for the CN3000 or a customer. See
external pages
Chapter 7
When the CN3000 authenticates itself, or a customer, it retrieves the URLs for the
custom pages, then automatically redirects customers to them when required.
Note: The CN3000 maintains a separate copy of the URLs for external pages for each
customer. This means it is possible to provide different pages on a per-customer basis.
See
Colubris-AVPair value string
The following table presents the Colubris-AVPair value strings used for customizing the
external pages.
Important: The maximum length of any external page URL is 512 characters. If
this is exceeded (when using placeholders for example), the URL is truncated. It
is therefore recommended that the most important placeholders be specified
first.
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"Displaying custom welcome and goodbye pages" on page 119
Attribute
login-err-url=
URL_of_page [ placeholder ]
welcome-url=
URL_of_page [ placeholder ]
goodbye-url=
URL_of_page [ placeholder ]
Notes
Access to the web server hosting this
page must be granted to all
unauthenticated customers. Do this with
an appropriate access list definition.
(Customers can see this page before
they are logged in.)
The customer is authenticated, so the
welcome page can be located on any
URL reachable by the customer.
Access to the web server hosting this
page must be granted to all
unauthenticated customers. Do this with
an appropriate access list definition.
(Customers see this page after they are
logged out.)