Felmon Davis wrote: > > Greets! > > Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which > provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. > > this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser or > Iron. > > (a) what is the mechanism FF uses for this feat? > > (b) can it be replicated in Brave and Iron (which I generally prefer)? > > I admit Brave is often a bit touchy about accessing pages where it suspects > security threats.
The portal works by intercepting any web page request at all and answering with its own sign-up page. Good implementations of HTTPS prevent this. So, go to a page which you know will be served via plain HTTP. If you can't think of one, try http://www.plainwebsite.com -dsr-
