Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[JD]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2013, at 1:47PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:37:31 +0100
> Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experience using public wifi hotspots that have a
>
> login page?
>
> If so, how do you go about using these?
>
>
> While in the wifi area, open a browser.  The login page will
> automagically appear!  Login.
>
> Yes, that easy.
>
>
> Evening all,
>
> I have been following this thread for a little while now, quite an
> interesting progression throughout the day.
> I'll make it short. I work for a company that designs and builds these
> Wi-Fi systems in the UK. Every system I've seen uses DNS or HTTP redirects
> to capture the user.
> Given that Firefox shows a DNS error message, I would guess that the EU
> has manually set his DNS servers, rather than using the ones provided
> through DHCP. Unfortunately this will not work as access to everything
> outside of the Capture zone ("Walled Garden") is blocked.
> As for giving support for such an issue, the steps you have all suggested
> are the exact same that I would follow given this situation. The fact that
> the user is running Ubuntu rather than Windows is barely relevant, all the
> relevant information is (and has been for a while) completely standardised,
> Just look at RFC1035, RFC2616, RFC2131, etc.
>
> @avi: BT actually rent their system from third-party companies (like mine)
> @Cybe: yes that's exactly how it should work, some OS's even detect that
> they do not have full internet access and bring up the login page for the
> user!
>
> Kind Regards,
> Jacob Mansfield
>
> Hi Jacob,
I found out I had completely forgotten about my firewall settings, which
are really draconian :)
I relaxed the rules a little, and the redirect worked just fine.

Cheers,

JD
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