[Bug 997200] Re: update-manager can't handle hotel web access pages

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

After further discussion (with Stéphane Graber and Didier Roche) we'll
tackle this *very early* in the R release. It's too late in the quantal
release cycle to enable such a polarizing "new feature"
(https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-July/035490.html),
especially one that needs further discussion and work on the design and
technical side to really be efficient when enabled for a majority of our
users.

There has been a lot of really useful feedback on the thread, with quite
a few things that will have to be investigated; such as how to indicate
and/or prompt users to open a browser and handle authentication on
captive portals, checking intervals, checking methods and on-demand
checking.

We'll schedule a UDS discussion specifically on that subject and enable
the feature as-is as soon as R is opened so that work can start and bugs
can be opened for any things we may have overlooked.

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu Quantal)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu Precise)
    Milestone: precise-updates => None

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu Quantal)
    Milestone: quantal-updates => None

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Title:
  update-manager can't handle hotel web access pages

Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “network-manager” source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in “update-manager” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in “network-manager” source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix
Status in “update-manager” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed
Status in “network-manager” source package in r-series:
  Triaged
Status in “update-manager” source package in r-series:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When in a hotel there is a often a T&Cs page that is delivered when
  connecting to the network.  Some combination of network manager and
  update manager (or something else entirely) doesn't seem to be able to
  handle this, and update are left in a non-working state after not
  being able to read package headers file.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed May  9 17:27:02 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  IpRoute:
   default via 10.155.32.1 dev wlan0  proto static 
   10.155.32.0/19 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.155.38.82  metric 2 
   169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0  scope link  metric 1000
  NetworkManager.state:
   [main]
   NetworkingEnabled=true
   WirelessEnabled=true
   WWANEnabled=true
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: network-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-07 (63 days ago)
  nmcli-dev:
   DEVICE     TYPE              STATE         DBUS-PATH                                  
   wlan0      802-11-wireless   connected     /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1  
   eth0       802-3-ethernet    unavailable   /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
  nmcli-nm:
   RUNNING         VERSION    STATE           NET-ENABLED   WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE   WWAN      
   running         0.9.4.0    connected       enabled       enabled         enabled    enabled         disabled

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