[120019] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Cox)
Tue Dec 8 05:01:19 2009
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:30:17 +1030
From: Andrew Cox <andrew@accessplus.com.au>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <200912080939.nB89dIXn090157@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Yeah the iPhone changes were a bit of a pain, we had to build a second
iPhone specific version of our login page because the iPhone
"auto-login" feature won't allow more than 1 page to be loaded.
We would normally redirect users to the page they've originally
requested after they click the login button as well as opening a status
popup for them to logout and keep track of usage.
Not on the iPhone thou, they're using a cut-down safari browser that
won't allow more than 1 tab to load and worst of all, if you close off
the page it simply disconnects from the wireless network.
Andrew
>
> It's gotta be difficult for the hotspot networks. Even at&t can't seem
> to make it all work right even when they control both sides; I've seen
> iPhones just hang when connecting to attwifi (and I can say I've seen
> it not work in some way maybe even more often than I've seen it actually
> work). At least the iPhone seems to have some built-in support for this
> sort of thing. (Anybody know anything more about that?)
>
> ... JG
>
