[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.
More information about the PLUG
mailing list