Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.
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.
The portal works by intercepting any web page request at all and
answering with its own sign-up page.
Good implementations of HTTPS prevent this.
So, go to a page which you know will be served via plain HTTP.
If you can't think of one, try http://www.plainwebsite.com
-dsr-
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