<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Jacob Mansfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cyberjacob@gmail.com" target="_blank">cyberjacob@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>On 19 Feb 2013, at 1:47PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:37:31 +0100<br>Patrick Asselman <<a href="mailto:iceblink@seti.nl" target="_blank">iceblink@seti.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
<br><blockquote type="cite">Does anyone have experience using public wifi hotspots that have a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">login page?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If so, how do you go about using these?<br>
</blockquote><br>While in the wifi area, open a browser. The login page will<br>automagically appear! Login.<br><br>Yes, that easy.</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Evening all,</div><div><br></div><div>I have been following this thread for a little while now, quite an interesting progression throughout the day.</div>
<div>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.</div><div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>@avi: BT actually rent their system from third-party companies (like mine)</div><div>@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!</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><span style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;border-collapse:separate;text-transform:none;font-size:medium;white-space:normal;font-family:Helvetica;word-spacing:0px">Kind Regards,<br>
Jacob Mansfield</span></div><div></div></div></div><br></blockquote><div>Hi Jacob,<br>I found out I had completely forgotten about my firewall settings, which are really draconian :)<br>I relaxed the rules a little, and the redirect worked just fine.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>JD<br></div></div>