A collection of add-ons and scripts for making IIT Madras campus network easier to use. Since I've graduated from IITM, I don't intend on maintaining these any longer. Feel free to fork them and tweak them to make them work. :) Good luck!
A BASH script for the new Fortigate 3200D Firewall IIT Madras has installed in their campus network. This script uses cURL to send a keepalive request every 200 seconds, and keep the connection alive.
Adventages over keeping a browser window open
- No browser required
- Can be used in command line / TTY environment (without a display server)
- More reliable than keeping a browser window open
- No dependencies. cURL should be already installed in your Linux.
A one-click Netaccess authenticator for IIT Madras students. It's available in the following forms:
- Firefox Extension for desktop and Android (Fully verified by Mozilla)
- A Google Chrome Extension
Source code and README is available in respective folders.
NOTE: This script is now obsolete, since the papers can now also be accessed without using the proxy.
IIT Madras has subscribed to a lot of e-journals that students can avail for free. However, they can only be accessed for free using a proxy.
This proxy configuration script eliminates the need to switch the proxy for free access to these journals. With this script, the 150+ e-journal websites and other domains subscribed by IIT Madras will always be accessed through hproxy, while Facebook and other domains will be accessed through direct connection.
I have added checks for some frequently visited sites at the beginning of the script, so that it won't have to go through those 150 comparisons for every visited site.