Re: Fedora captive portal page changed output :(

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On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 09:05 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> That is incorrect in my experience. When I go to coffee shops, my
> iphone
> shows the portal page, but my laptop shows the TLS cert invalid
> thing.

Oh wow. I didn't know that. Feels like time to give up....

So what's your recommendation, just ignore all TLS errors and accept
that anybody can intercept your credentials for the portal? It could be
a problem because AFAIK some portals are using Google credentials for
authentication nowadays. I don't know much about that ....

> Yes. That is why I specifically requested that the fedora hotspot
> page
> never chage their output and never send a redirect. Using the main
> page
> of gnome was a bad fit. Note you should also ensure that
> nmcheck.gnome.org
> has a cache lifetime of 0 seconds to it.

Yeah, I actually filed a bug for this a while back:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750941

> Or a cached page? It's been happening to me on f24 for a few weeks
> now.
> 
> Paul

Um... yeah maybe, I don't see any code in the portal helper to disable
caching at all. Bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775639

Michael
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