On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Don Park <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:05 -0800, Michael Weinberg wrote: >> One way we could approach this would be to allow PTP members to >> whitelist up to 3 devices for one year, by bringing the device(s) to a >> monthly meeting, where the MAC address would be placed into the > > If a request is made for http://xyz, the page for xyz should be returned > and not a different page. Every computer on the Internet can reasonably > count on this happening, except for wifi users.
I'm not convinced of this, nor would I agree that every computer on the net works like that. The Internet is rife with redirects, many which are more annoying and/or insidious than the PTP splash page. > A half-way point between keeping and removing the splash page is what > wifidog is already doing: show the splash page once, then consider the > user authorized. A browser-less mobile device can be expected to make a > second attempt and that second attempt will go through. Is this how it works? If you don't auth or click the internet link you can just try again and it lets your through? Also, given that most of our recent complaints seem to come from WiFiDog locations, I'm not sure I'd use that as the model going forward. -- Michael Weinberg President Personal Telco Project, Inc. A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
