On Sat Feb 12 15:17:38 2022 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> 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 When I try that one, I get re-routed to https://www.buydomains.com. My go-to in this situation is http://neverssl.com -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | It can be beautiful - X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Lily Tomlin
