Re: GNOME captive portal helper (was Re: F23 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver)

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On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:

> It'd be nice to not show
> http://www.gnome.org (the test URL we load, expecting to be hijacked)
> if the portal decides not to redirect you to a new URI (not sure how
> common that is), but I think we will have to or we can't fix this....

It could be http://generic-network-login.org or something like that.

using www.gnome.org is wrong. For one, you cannot guarantee they won't
end up using some redirect and than the captive portal would fail.
Second, the TTL for that DNS entry is not 0, so it will get cached and
cause wrong probe results later on.

There is a good reason we started hotspot-nocache.fedoraproject.org.

Paul
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