Re: [PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-05 Thread Steve Dum
At one of the places I tend to stay while on vacation, I always look forward to the initial wifi setup (with dread). As you point out the issue is ssl connections. All my typical urls are https: now a days - and they produce a phony certificate that they want me to accept to log into their

Re: [PLUG] TONIGHT: March PLUG Meeting: The Future of Copyleft

2015-03-05 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Michael Dexter dex...@ambidexter.com wrote: Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement That sounds like an awesome talk. -- teknotus (Take Notice) ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

[PLUG] TONIGHT: March PLUG Meeting: The Future of Copyleft

2015-03-05 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Bradley M. Kuhn What: Considering the Future of Copyleft: How Will The Next Generation Perceive GPL? Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, March 5th, 2015 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

Re: [PLUG] TONIGHT: March PLUG Meeting: The Future of Copyleft

2015-03-05 Thread Michael Dexter
On 3/5/15 12:24 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: That sounds like an awesome talk. Bradley has put more thought and effort into software freedom than just about everyone else on the planet. Michael ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-05 Thread Chuck Hast
On Mar 5, 2015 2:29 PM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/2015 12:15 PM, Steve Dum wrote: ... Finally I asked for a url that gave me access to their login page. They went off for a while and came back with an incredibly long http url. What idiots! I had already decided the

Re: [PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-05 Thread King Beowulf
On 03/05/2015 12:15 PM, Steve Dum wrote: ... Finally I asked for a url that gave me access to their login page. They went off for a while and came back with an incredibly long http url. What idiots! I had already decided the best solution was to start off by browsing to any short http url -

Re: [PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-05 Thread Russell Senior
Chuck == Chuck Hast wch...@gmail.com writes: Chuck A LAX, foo.com worked great, it dumped me to the redirect so fast Chuck I did not see the pages it went thru getting there. Usually it Chuck goes to several pages before getting to the landing page. In the case of the captive portal that we

Re: [PLUG] TONIGHT: March PLUG Meeting: The Future of Copyleft

2015-03-05 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Michael Dexter dex...@ambidexter.com wrote: On 3/5/15 12:24 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: That sounds like an awesome talk. Bradley has put more thought and effort into software freedom than just about everyone else on the planet. I don't have transportation to