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Note that some captive portals will break here, because they will use various kinds of redirections for everything except the well-known Google and Apple captiv
by c4mpute 3y ago
Note that some captive portals will break here, because they will use various kinds of redirections for everything except the well-known Google and Apple captive portal check URLs.
- account42 3y agoWouldn't such redirections break Google/Apple's checks? The whole point of this URL is to test if you can actually connect to the internet - if random urls are intercepted/broken then the test should fail.
- c4mpute 3y agoNo, those redirections explicitly exempt Google/Apple checks by not redirecting their URLs. All other URLs are redirected to show advertisements usually, either injected into the site you wanted to visit or as a replacement, and a please-login-and-pay-here page. That devices are fooled to assume that internet is working is intentional, otherwise those devices would immediately disconnect.
- account42 3y agoYes, what you are describing is breaking the Google/Apple checks by making those devices think that Internet access is available when its not.