Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.
On Sat 12 Feb 2022 at 21:07:10 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 08:52:58PM +0100, Felmon Davis wrote:
> >
> > Greets!
> >
> > Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which
> > provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10.
> >
> > this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser or Iron.
> >
> > (a) what is the mechanism FF uses for this feat?
> >
> > (b) can it be replicated in Brave and Iron (which I generally prefer)?
> >
> > I admit Brave is often a bit touchy about accessing pages where it suspects
> > security threats.
>
> This is Firefox's captive portal [1] detection [2].
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] Had I a say in it, I'd reserve a very special place in Hell
> for those.
Could the process to replace them on, say, public transport be outlined?
--
Brian.
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