Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.
On Sat Feb 12 15:17:38 2022 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> 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
When I try that one, I get re-routed to https://www.buydomains.com.
My go-to in this situation is http://neverssl.com
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