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They usually work by MITMing your connection to whatever site you're trying to visit and serving an HTTP redirect (maybe 307?) to the captive portal page. As a
by Ajedi32 10y ago
They usually work by MITMing your connection to whatever site you're trying to visit and serving an HTTP redirect (maybe 307?) to the captive portal page.
As a substitute for The Guardian, maybe try http://example.com http://example.com?
- andy_ppp 10y agoBut eventually all the sites will be HTTPS - I've no idea what non-techy users do when faced with this apparent brokenness.
- robin_reala 10y agoI’d be surprised if example.com goes https-only. Regardless, if all sites go https only then free wifi providers will have to come up with some other way of redirecting you to their signup page.