Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[JD]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:

> Ron Fish wrote:
> > If he can opening 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?
>
> --
> Avi
>
>
>
I googled and found many people are still the victims of this problem
when using ubuntu/firefox.
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