[PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

King Beowulf kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 22:29:03 UTC 2015


On 03/05/2015 12:15 PM, Steve Dum wrote:
>... Finally I asked for a url that gave me access to 
> their login page. They went off for a while and came back with an 
> incredibly long http url. What idiots! I had already decided the best 
> solution was to start off by browsing to any short http url - e.g. 
> foo.com. They redirect it to their login page and everyone's happy.  
> (for some reason unknown to me shorter urls like a.com weren't as 
> reliable, but typing foo.com is sufficently short and easy. It should 
> get any of the wifi login servers redirect login page.
> steve


Neat trick!  I'll have to try it next time.

It does boggle the mind why "they" can't just set up a simple landing
page to log in.



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