Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[Colin Law]

On 17 February 2013 21:13, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
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>> Ron Fish wrote:
>> > If he can opening a terminal and ping yahoo.com then the browser is not
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>> > getting along with the hotspot software.
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>> 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.
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>> > most likely it is failing
>> > on a certificate check from the hotspot. In firefox go into edit >
>> > preferences > advanced > encryption > validation  and uncheck OCSP.
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>> In this case surely he'd get an SSL error message?
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>> Avi
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> I googled and found many people are still the victims of this problem
> when using ubuntu/firefox.

So it is ok with Chromium browser, or another browser then?

Colin