The scenario is: You want to connect to a public wifi hotspot and use their internet connection. In order to do so you need to trigger the login page in your br

The scenario is: You want to connect to a public wifi hotspot and use their internet connection. In order to do so you need to trigger the login page in your browser after you connect to the hotspot. However if you open common urls like google.com or facebook.com you'll automatically get redirected to secure connections (https) and they can't intercept this to present the login page. This is because TLS (the protocol behind HTTPS connections) uses end-to-end encryption. Thus the author proposes to open this simple unprotected website. However most hotspots manage to automatically trigger the vendor specific mechanism as soon as you connect to their Wifi. Don't use public wifi unless you really need to!