[EdLUG] Fw: Questions for all fellow EdLUG people

[Mark Turner]

our WiFi channels are called "Surveillance201" and "HiddenCam99" - just to
make the neighbours paranoid ;)


On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 at 15:24, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 9, 2020, at 2:12 PM, Gábor Majoros wrote:
>
> Can you expand the "technical details" on the printscreen you have
> attached - what I suspect is that you connect, but the captive portal
> doesn't kick in and you do not click though? However when you try a website
> you get re-directed to the captive portal that could throw this error since
> the URL and the captive portal's SSL (if any) doesn't match.
>
>
> Good point! If the captive portal ('login to wifi') page doesn't come up
> automatically, try to go to www.example.com . Many of the obvious sites
> now require HTTPS (for good reason), so the captive portal can't redirect
> you. www.example.com is still available over plain HTTP, so it works for
> this purpose.
>
> Thomas
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