Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

[Felmon Davis <moelmoel2714@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Dan Ritter wrote:

> 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-

there are several responses, very informative; I´ll just reply to a 
couple.

the hotel, as Long Wind says, wants me to supply some credentials 
(username and pw).

just so I understand, I interpret you as saying going to a plain http 
site will allow me to provide credentials through another browser than 
FF. that would be nice.

f.

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Felmon Davis

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