On Mar 5, 2015 2:29 PM, "King Beowulf" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 03/05/2015 12:15 PM, Steve Dum wrote: > >... Finally I asked for a url that gave me access to > > their login page. They went off for a while and came back with an > > incredibly long http url. What idiots! I had already decided the best > > solution was to start off by browsing to any short http url - e.g. > > foo.com. They redirect it to their login page and everyone's happy. > > (for some reason unknown to me shorter urls like a.com weren't as > > reliable, but typing foo.com is sufficently short and easy. It should > > get any of the wifi login servers redirect login page. > > steve > > > Neat trick! I'll have to try it next time. > > It does boggle the mind why "they" can't just set up a simple landing > page to log in. > ________________________________________
A LAX, foo.com worked great, it dumped me to the redirect so fast I did not see the pages it went thru getting there. Usually it goes to several pages before getting to the landing page. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
