On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Dan Ritter wrote:
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-
there are several responses, very informative; I´ll just reply to a
couple.
the hotel, as Long Wind says, wants me to supply some credentials
(username and pw).
just so I understand, I interpret you as saying going to a plain http
site will allow me to provide credentials through another browser than
FF. that would be nice.
f.
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Felmon Davis
Verbum sat sapienti.
