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Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.



On 2022-02-12, Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714@gmail.com> 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.
>
> f.


Some techniques are given below (I don't know how effective they are,
though).

https://wiki.debian.org/CaptivePortal


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