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by pfranz 3446 days ago
My iPhone constantly misses captive portals and I have to hunt for a non-ssl website. I can't say if it's 5% or 30% of networks, but enough to be frustrating. Does anyone know if it is common for apple.com to be whitelisted for iMessage or something?
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rmccue 3446 days ago
The captive portal browser (pop-up on macOS, slide-over on iOS) doesn't support full JavaScript or cookies (or previously didn't, maybe that has changed), so some captive portals specifically allow the captive portal test domains through.

There's actually a huge list of domains that macOS/iOS try: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18891706/ios7-and-captive...

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gumby 3446 days ago
> The captive portal browser (pop-up on macOS, slide-over on iOS)

I have never seen a captive portal interceptor on MacOS (much to my disappointment), only iOS. Is there some setting I previously screwed up?

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pfranz 3446 days ago
I've never seen a setting for it. It's just a modal dialog with a webview. Like iOS, you have "Cancel" as an option until it connects and changes to "Done."

Here's a screen shot I found: https://www.wireless.bris.ac.uk/gfx/eduroam-osx/captive_port...

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gumby 3446 days ago
Drat, I've never seen that on OS X. Just on iOS.

Because of this thread I simulated it on my network and couldn't cause it to show up.

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