Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[JD]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 17 February 2013 21:13, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> So it is ok with Chromium browser, or another browser then?
>
> Colin


Well, I have not tried Linux version of Chromium. But it is a good point.
I will try it tomorrow when I am at a hotspot.

Also, to answer Avi, I did set the proxy to auto in Firefox.
Did not solve the problem.
Also, This is a problem I need solved, but the FF devs
seem to be unaware of it, and the bug is still not assigned
to any developer.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583228
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