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Sooo, you're behind a captive portal which blocks internet access. So you access an https website on the internet that will redirect you to http. Wat.
by iforgotpassword 3y ago
Sooo, you're behind a captive portal which blocks internet access. So you access an https website on the internet that will redirect you to http. Wat.
- yardstick 3y agoWhat Joshua said, plus some hotspots also whitelist some IPs, allow some HTTPS temporarily. The world of hotspots is a real mixed bag on how they do things.
- JoshuaRogers 3y agoThe browser cachable bit is critical here. By having visited the page before, even though the network won’t allow traffic yet, the cached page performs a redirect to an unsecured page that the local captive portal CAN intercept.