On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Walter Vermeir wrote:
Hi, Here in Belgium there are two major Telecom company?s. On of them is Telenet. Customers who have internet service form them have also access to many wifihotspots. That are unprotected networks. But when you request a website you are redirected to a page where you need to login so you can browse the web. But I have noticed if you do not login you can not browse the www, but gopher, that works! Maybe there are also other wifi service providers who have not bothered to block gopher in your country ?
Yes 3 here in denmark had a bit of the same going, they had a captive portal system for their 3g net, so if you didnt have any credits left it would redirect you to their site where you could fill it up with a credtit card, but only port 80 access, ssh to your own server worked fine for free net, later on they caught up a bit made it so if would drop the tcp connection after some 400kb or so, but you could easly browser gopherspace still.
-- Jacob Dahl Pind | telefisk.org | fidonet 2:230/38.8
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