On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:39:14 -0800 Charlie Kravetz <char...@keepingdreams.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:24:43 +0100 > Flo <debian...@gmx.at> wrote: > >> I have an old laptop which I set up yesterday. And since it's >> old I only install the packages I need. >> >> Today I realized that I cannot login into an public hotspot. >> >> Up to now it worked in a way that I got redirected to the login page >> where I had to click on the connect button. This does not happen now. >> >> It just says it cannot find the webpage. >> >> What package is necessary to make firefox able to redirect me to the >> login page? What do I need to install? > > I had that issue with the latest firefox this weekend. I stayed at a > hotel, and firefox would not redirect. I finally had to enter the > url for the hotel login myself. Then firefox allowed the login. A captive portal cannot redirect HTTPS requests. I went around this merry-go-round for some time before I figured it out. What you need is to go to a URL that won't redirect to HTTPS. When I'm trying to use a public hotspot, I go to a URL that I know won't redirect. The captive portal kicks in, I do my login, and away I go. A motel I stayed in last week actually had a note in their information package telling Apple users to go to the motel's own home page (which doesn't use HTTPS) before trying to do anything else. So it's a known problem - and one which the Evil Empire's browsers apparently manage to circumvent somehow. I'm using Seamonkey, BTW. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
