instead, i end on a dead page posting a link to somewhere, which if entered in a browser won’t work.
but in reality, to get out of this, and be able to connect, Id need to collect info from the net settings, and use that from a browser ( a different one than the stock one)?
As a user, am I supposed to understand this from the page itself, in its current, minimalistic form?
Rather, it would be great if the page in question would at least have this info in it
I know guys you are trying to help fixing things; but trust me, im not in the plane anymore the time has passed :).
Yes, but you can use the info from net settings (gateway ip address) or use neverssl.com address. Should it doesn’t work this is mean that you use non standard DNS system you should use expected one.
I get that, thanks. But why not add this info in that popup page as well, as an improvement ?
These solutions are perhaps good kludges, but definitely not a silver bullet…
EDIT : using http is a bad idea (as the guys state on the neverssl.com).
Also, if I am not connected to Wifi, how can I use DNS?
The magical captive portal thing you get doesn’t show up on all captive portals.
And of course it should not be broken, but we have an old browser and they probably did something really silly on the web page.
It should just work™, but when it doesn’t these are normal things you can do.
Your silver bullet is flypig doing the browser/webview uplift.
And if you keep reading you find that the whole point of the page is to be susceptible to what is effectively DNS spoofing to shove the login page in your face. (And other similar debugging uses).
You are not really meant to interact with neverssl itself, and it’s not like it is your bank anyway… some publicly available text going unencrypted never hurt anyone.
But you are! They are just not routing your traffic to the actual internet yet.
Captive portals routinely break for me (or my family), maybe cause, linux? I don’t mean on the phone, I mean, generally. Ubuntu, *bsd, android. A lot of them are based on old ‘radius’ server recipes designed by neanderthals (like me). The SFOS old whatever is not likely the cause. The ‘as only tested on a limited number of devices’ cause is more likely. I’m frankly surprised they ever work. And when they do, I hope to not be flying on an airplane.
