[PLUG] WiFi Access Point redirects.

[Chuck Hast]

On Mar 5, 2015 2:29 PM, "King Beowulf" <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> ________________________________________

A LAX,  foo.com worked great, it dumped me to the redirect so fast I did
not see the pages it went thru getting there. Usually it goes to several
pages before getting to the landing page.