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by captivehacker1 1434 days ago
To my shame, I must admit that I've implemented a captive portal before.

The article fails to mention https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8952 and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8908 which get rid of most of the pain of captive portals on modern OS from a user perspective Still need to support Captive-Portal detection URLs for some edge-cases (Apple, MS, NetworkManager) and older desktops. But at least HTTP redirection becomes obsolete in almost all cases. Also has the nice feature of showing links to venue info page and remaining data volume in Android.

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Happy to add those, if you can point to some information about actual implementations?