<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Avi Greenbury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@avi.co" target="_blank">lists@avi.co</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Ron Fish wrote:<br>
> If he can opening a terminal and ping <a href="http://yahoo.com" target="_blank">yahoo.com</a> then the browser is not<br>
> getting along with the hotspot software.<br>
<br>
</div>Not necessarily - if the hotspot works by lying in DNS and making<br>
everything resolve to an IP address that is serving the captive portal<br>
he will be able to ping yahoo absolutely fine, it'll just be on the<br>
wrong IP address.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> most likely it is failing<br>
> on a certificate check from the hotspot. In firefox go into edit ><br>
> preferences > advanced > encryption > validation and uncheck OCSP.<br>
<br>
</div>In this case surely he'd get an SSL error message?<br>
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Avi<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I googled and found many people are still the victims of this problem<br>when using ubuntu/firefox.<br>