Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[Avi Greenbury]

Ron Fish wrote:
> If he can open a terminal and ping yahoo.com then the browser is not
> getting along with the hotspot software. 

Not necessarily - if the hotspot works by lying in DNS and making
everything resolve to an IP address that is serving the captive portal
he will be able to ping yahoo absolutely fine, it'll just be on the
wrong IP address.

> most likely it is failing
> on a certificate check from the hotspot. In firefox go into edit >
> preferences > advanced > encryption > validation  and uncheck OCSP.

In this case surely he'd get an SSL error message?

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Avi