On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Dan Ritter wrote:
The portal works by intercepting any web page request at all and
answering with its own sign-up page.
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
So, in sum, there are at least the following methods for getting
through to a hotel portal via the browser of one´s choice; the trick
is to get the network gateway address.
The ways include:
(a) at the command line do ´ip --oneline route get 1.1.1.1´
(b) the above is a variant on the solution described at
<https://wiki.debian.org/CaptivePortal> which directs you to use the
following URL in your browser:
xdg-open http://$(ip --oneline route get 1.1.1.1 | awk '{print $3}'
(c) go to a simple ´http:´ webpage, not ´https:´; some suggestions
were:
http://www.plainwebsite.com/
http://neverssl.com/
I have only tried (a) and it worked fine. I am well armed for the next
time I have the pleasure of a hotel.
thanks to all contributors.
f.
--
Felmon Davis
Verbum sat sapienti.
