On Sat 12 Feb 2022 at 21:07:10 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > 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.
Could the process to replace them on, say, public transport be outlined? -- Brian.