[Connection problems and Confusion]

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So the question is.....why is it still telling me no connection when I try and get to the pineapple Bar, upgrade or reveal public ip.

Have I missed something? or are the MkIV servers no longer functioning.

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I have the seriously problem that i can ping outside servers (e.q. 8.8.8.8), but i can't forward the http traffic or get a positive message from "reveal public ip" or "check for update".

I connected the WAN port with the internet and the PoW/LAN port and the Wifi with my mac.

Additionally I configured the internet sharing options on mac to let the USB-Ethernetadapter (PoE/LAN port) use the wifi internet connection. But it doesn't helps.

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When I click reveal public ip I get "Error Connecting"

When I click check for update I get "Error Connecting. Please make sure you have a working connection!"

When I try and get a list of infusions I get the same error.

Things I have tried

I did a factory reset of the MK iV

I tried connecting the MKIV to my network via the Lan Port

I tried tethering it a windows laptop running windows 10 following the instruction in the book and guidance from the internet (got the same results)

Like I said I had this working before but I am obviously not doing something.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

the function "reveal public IP Address" can be found in:

root@pineapple:/pineapple/components/system/network

cat functions.php

there you can see, that by clicking on the web GUI on the Link "Internet IP: Show" you trigger a java script calling this function in functions.php:

if(isset($_GET['internet_ip'])){
  if(online()){
   echo file_get_contents("https://wifipineapple.com/ip.php");
  }else{
   echo '<font color="red">Error Connecting</font>;
  }
}

I think, the point is that https connections don't work, see my post here: https://forums.hak5.org/index.php?/topic/37929-suggestion-how-to-fix-https-connections-on-ap-121u-based-mk4-pineapple/

performing a

curl https://wifipineapple.com/ip.php

from a standard linux desktop gives you your public IP Address ... so this script is working fine ... but requires a https connection ...

(1) the php function "file_get_contents" seems to need some kind of wrapper to support https (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1975461/how-to-get-file-get-contents-work-with-https) and

(2) wget, which is used in opkg update, comes from busybox which also does not support https connections

So, I believe your pineapple is working fine, but the backend was migrated to https connections only ... which are not supported in MK4 models so far

[Suggestion how to fix https connections on AP-121U based MK4 pineapple]

Hello community,

I have a Alfa Hornet AP121-U access point, the hardware basis of the wifi
pineapple MK4 and I have successfully flashed Firmware V3.0.0 on the device.

But the connection functions/options back to the cloud.wifipineapple.com to
get updates, infusions, or even to show the Internet IP do not work.

I think this is because of the backend was migrated to https based connections,
and the wget software, part of busybox 1.19.4 (as it comes with FW 3.0.0) does
not support https encrypted connections, only http or ftp connections are supported.

Idea:

Since wget is provided by busybox, would it be possible to recompile busybox
and replacing it on the pineapple?

The latest version of busybox can be found here:
https://busybox.net/downloads/

for cross compiling busybox for an arm target, I followed this description:
http://wiki.beyondlogic.org/index.php?title=Cross_Compiling_BusyBox_for_ARM

I get a binary busybox file with 964KB using all the default options set for
busybox version 1.24.2
The Busybox binary on my pineapple has a size of 417.6KB
I doubt that my new busybox fits on the memory of the AP-121U based pineapple

libopenssl seems to be installed on the FW 3.0.0, check:

opkg status | grep -A 7 Package:\ libopenssl

gets me this:

Package: libopenssl
Version: 1.0.1.e-1
Depends: libc, zlib
Providers:
Status: install ok installed
Architecture: ar71xx
Installed-Time: some_number

so, my understanding about this, that openssl is available on the pineapple, so
wget could make use of it.

I believe, wget not supporting https connections is the main problem working with
MK4 based hardware. This is my insight after studying these posts:
https://forums.hak5.org/index.php?/topic/37829-cant-download-infusion-and-use-opkg-update-command/
https://forums.hak5.org/index.php?/topic/37775-some-mk4-problems/
https://forums.hak5.org/index.php?/topic/37783-markiv-infusions-wanted/
Quote by Sebkinne:
We'll ensure the mk4 services are back up soon - the issue is that the mk4 doesn't use ssl.

Help needed:

So, does anyone have recommendations how to configure the build of busybox, so
that I have the same functionality like the one on FW 3.0.0 of the pineapple
and also get a similar size?

Further input would be helpful,

regards,

tomscrat