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] 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] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-04 Thread King Beowulf
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, Chuck Hast wch...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I will test that one out as soon as I get to the airport today. Maybe at the mall I am doing work at, the first time I get a chance I will test it out. Thank you for the fast come back. On Mar 4, 2015 1:12 AM, Russell

Re: [PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-04 Thread Chuck Hast
On Mar 4, 2015 8:22 AM, King Beowulf kingbeow...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, Chuck Hast wch...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I will test that one out as soon as I get to the airport today. Maybe at the mall I am doing work at, the first time I get a chance I will test it out.

Re: [PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-04 Thread Russell Senior
Chuck == Chuck Hast wch...@gmail.com writes: Chuck Folks, I am not sure if it is me or just that the mechanisim used Chuck to redirect a browser on WiFi when being Queried for a login or Chuck some sort of acceptance of usage. The typical captive portal redirect you are talking about can't deal

Re: [PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-04 Thread Chuck Hast
Ok I will test that one out as soon as I get to the airport today. Maybe at the mall I am doing work at, the first time I get a chance I will test it out. Thank you for the fast come back. On Mar 4, 2015 1:12 AM, Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net wrote: Chuck == Chuck Hast

[PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

2015-03-03 Thread Chuck Hast
Folks, I am not sure if it is me or just that the mechanisim used to redirect a browser on WiFi when being Queried for a login or some sort of acceptance of usage. I travel a lot, and find that you get to a airport, and try to log into the wifi network, but the redirect Mechanisim does not seem