On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 08:52:58PM +0100, 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.
This is Firefox's captive portal [1] detection [2]. Cheers [1] Had I a say in it, I'd reserve a very special place in Hell for those. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal -- t
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