On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Dan Ritter wrote:The portal works by intercepting any web page request at all and answering with its own sign-up page. 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
So, in sum, there are at least the following methods for getting through to a hotel portal via the browser of one´s choice; the trick is to get the network gateway address.
The ways include: (a) at the command line do ´ip --oneline route get 1.1.1.1´(b) the above is a variant on the solution described at <https://wiki.debian.org/CaptivePortal> which directs you to use the following URL in your browser:
xdg-open http://$(ip --oneline route get 1.1.1.1 | awk '{print $3}'
(c) go to a simple ´http:´ webpage, not ´https:´; some suggestions
were:
http://www.plainwebsite.com/ http://neverssl.com/I have only tried (a) and it worked fine. I am well armed for the next time I have the pleasure of a hotel.
thanks to all contributors. f. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.