Re: [LUG] 20170207 Cafe/Library WiFi connecting?

[Gordon Henderson via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, Eion MacDonald via list wrote:

> On 15/02/2017 20:08, Tremayne, Steve via list wrote:
> > Just picking up on this ...
> >
> > I used to use xkcd.com as my "start page" URL when trying to login to various hotel / 
> > cafà wifi systems, but as Simon pointed out, it's usually the http -> http*S* redirection that 
> > causes most captive portals to jam up (IMO)
> >
> > So, now I use a well-known fake URL: http://example.com and that seems to trigger 
> > the captive portal in 99.24% of cases :)

> I have found these two 'test sites'  example at dot com and dot org.
> Thanks , I will try these.

http://wiringpi.com/ and http://moorbakes.co.uk/ both owned by me are not 
https, although the plan is to make them so - one day, but not for a while 
yet.

Gordon

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