Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by darklajid 3006 days ago
I don't think you can ship millions of devices that randomly hit on a URL that you don't control or own.

Example.com is for examples (so that if you copy & paste my code, you don't do weird things). I am not convinced that example.com would appreciate the worlds phones to use it at a whim..

(Plus, I'm not sure that's possible without controlling the domain. Not sure if the current ways to detect a capture portal are satisfied by a random 200 OK or actually _check the content_ of the reply. Which needs you to control said content)