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Oh no, this was my go-to site whenever I had to login to public wifi and https wouldn't redirect :(
by fanpuns 10y ago
Oh no, this was my go-to site whenever I had to login to public wifi and https wouldn't redirect :(
- joatmon-snoo 10y agohttp://example.com http://example.com is my go-to for those.
- jacobevelyn 10y agoThat is a much better suggestion, thanks.
- kelnos 10y agoHeh, I use http://foo.com http://foo.com
- jacobevelyn 10y agoI'm glad someone else has a go-to site for this. I use my university alma mater's website.
- tblyler 10y agohttp://neverssl.com/ http://neverssl.com/ my friend.
- jacobevelyn 10y agoThanks! Never knew this site existed.
- tux3 10y agoI use http://plop.org http://plop.org, a whole four characters shorter!
- rosstex 10y agoBut is that guaranteed to never use SSL?
- akoster 10y agoI like that one. My domains for this purpose are: http://i.net/ http://i.net/ and http://ip4.me/ http://ip4.me/ (or http://ip6.me http://ip6.me, if you know you have IPv6 connectivity)
- snug 10y agohttp://cnn.com http://cnn.com for me :)
- djsumdog 10y agoOr if you need to use paid wi-fi for free, you can always use https://github.com/yarrick/iodine https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
- oldopsguy 10y agopretty funny is that i use nytimes for exactly the same reason, wonder how many others are using it this way :)
- manacit 10y agoThat's what I use http://http.rip http://http.rip for :D
- nathancahill 10y agoHah, I use http://httpbin.org http://httpbin.org.
- CPLX 10y agoI've been using 1.1.1.1 for years. It's easy to type and seems to call up interstitial screens fast, especially the NYC subway wifi portal, where seconds count. Of course this thread makes me wonder if I've been doing it wrong.
- shakna 10y ago1.1.1.1 is assigned to APNIC Labs in Australia. It isn't always reachable for their own reasons. Using 1.1.1.1 makes a http request, which lets the captive portal take over, so good job, but you are actually hitting a group that actually exists, and what if they suddenly launch a HTST site on that IP? It might break your method.
- empath75 10y agohttp://apple.com http://apple.com will probably always work since that's what ios uses when you join a network. I think specifically this url: http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html
- __derek__ 10y agoIt's http://captive.apple.com/ http://captive.apple.com/. That's always my go-to.
- rocky1138 10y agocbc.ca. You can do it with one hand.
- hx87 10y agoIncluding the period?
- rocky1138 10y agono
- akubera 10y agoActually, it shouldn't matter. A trailing dot in a hostname signifies a fully-qualified domain name, rather than a relative domain name. Without the dot the router's dns service could technically return 'cbc.ca.some.othersite.net.' as the FQDN. For those interested, learn more at: http://www.dns-sd.org/trailingdotsindomainnames.html http://www.dns-sd.org/trailingdotsindomainnames.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name
- kelnos 10y agoThey meant the period in the middle (as in, "can you type the full thing, including the period in the middle, with one hand?"). I read it the same way as you did, initially.
- rocky1138 10y agoI did, too, and I was the original replyer (is that a word?). But, if you visit cbc.ca once, you can do it with one hand in the future as it's the first option in the autocomplete dropdown.
- c0nsumer 10y agohttp://dingleberrypie.com http://dingleberrypie.com, my personal test domain.
- fennecfoxen 10y agoYou can't use a respectable site for that sort of a redirect! Use a tabloid like drudgereport.com ;)
- artursapek 10y ago...wow I never understood that this was why that happens
- rosstex 10y agoI totally had to figure this out for myself to use the Wi-Fi on a Southwest flight. Man, I thought I was clever!
- dschep 10y agoI use bing.com for that :D
- geofft 10y agoThe options I use are the ones the browsers themselves use: http://gstatic.com http://gstatic.com (Chrome uses http://gstatic.com/generate_204 http://gstatic.com/generate_204 , which returns a 204 No Content) http://www.msftncsi.com http://www.msftncsi.com (Windows, desktop and mobile, uses http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt. NCSI is "Network Connectivity Status Indicator") http://captive.apple.com http://captive.apple.com (macOS / iOS) because those are likely to be extraordinarily well-maintained and reliable. Unfortunately sometimes some captive portals allow just this one site through and not the others. Looking at you, United WiFi, which whitelists gstatic.com, but fortunately not msftncsi.com.
- 2bluesc 10y agoI just run `curl -v http://google.com` http://google.com` in my termainl and click the redirect link. No risk of caching that way.
- robotmlg 10y agoRelevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
- cr3ative 10y agohttp://purple.com http://purple.com - also useful for seeing if someone's internet is working over the phone or not. "Go to purple.com and tell me what you see". Is the answer "purple"? Hooray!