Authenticating with Captive Portal

I just got off the phone with technical support and the technician said that the only traffic I can authenticate is http/https. Can someone confirm that the use case below is not valid? 

Here is what I want to do:

Use HTTPS to authenticate a user 

Af

Exclude account(s) from authentication?

I know there is the allow list, but what about an exclude?  We use Captive Portal for BYOD and have thousands of accounts we want to allow, but exclude our double digit generic accounts from being able to log in.  What's the best way to achieve this?

QOS bypass traffic

is there any way to get more info about what kinds of traffic are being classified as "bypass" traffic?

i have not found anything in cli, traffic logs or acc.

Multicast configuration for IPTV

Hi all,

I'm lost configuring my PA-500 for IPTV using multicast.

My provider has a new option for IPTV.

They stated that in order to test the configuration one should try to open:

https://www.fiber7.ch/documents/129/Big_Buck_Bunny_Stream.xspf

So fa

file blocking profile but allow some apps

Hi 

We have recently enabled file blocking on all our web access rule and it works a treat, but looking at the data filtering logs i can see the likes of Google Chrome being blocked.

I have played around creating a seperate rule, that is above the ma

LSVPN Satellite Reconnection Time

Does anyone know how to decrease the time between LSVPN Satellite connection attempts?

If one of our satellites drops off (e.g. reboot/power outage/etc), after it comes back up it will take up to an hour to connect to it's nominated Gateway. Also, if

EDL- Predefined Paloalto IP Lists do not update

Hi guys,

my PA is still with the initial set of roughly 500 IPs in the two predefined IP lists which do not update; it is said those lists are part of the AV signature updates which run well. I also have confirmed with the CLI that its is not a GUI p

Panorama templates for an Active/Passive setup?

I'm in the process of setting up our new firewalls.  I went ahead and set up management on each of them, got them updated, got them paired up into Active/Passive, and am now following the Palo Alto 8.1 guide to migrate an HA config over to Panorama.