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captive.apple.com is what Apple uses
by toxik 5y ago
captive.apple.com is what Apple uses
- lolinder 5y agoThanks. I was reaching for an example but don't have a guest WiFi nearby to test.
- bombcar 5y agoApple has at least ten or more of these I’ve seen - on badly configured networks you sometimes see it in the address bar - because cached responses could destroy the utility.
- fouc 5y agocan you name one or two? I've never seen anything else besides captive.apple.com
- gregsadetsky 5y agoI found https://community.ui.com/questions/Apple-iPhone-iOS-portals-issue/8f74e877-1ce0-4543-bac7-8895a99a77a1 https://community.ui.com/questions/Apple-iPhone-iOS-portals-... which lists some of these domains (www.itools.info, www.thinkdifferent.us, etc.), and this answer on StackOverflow -- https://stackoverflow.com/a/22277933/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/22277933/ -- which reverses a list of domains that all point to the same IP
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoGoogle's is http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/ http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/, and Microsoft's is http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt
- redler 5y agoLeave it to Microsoft to use cryptic abbreviations and character limits even in URLs…
- pitterpatter 5y agoAlternatively there's http://www.msftconnecttest.com/ncsi.txt http://www.msftconnecttest.com/ncsi.txt
- surround 5y agoFirefox uses http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt
- kd913 5y agoI was always wondering given that firefox has that detectportal.firefox.com why they also put requests into example.com/example.org?
- johnswas 5y agoWhat does this do?