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Re: [Bug 1967947] Re: WiFi will not connect to open WiFi with complicated re-direct

 

You don't consider a lack of documentation of how to connect to a basic
hotel WiFi that every other operating system can connect to a short-coming
in your documentation or product?  I have been programming for fun and
profit since 1979.  I built BSD Unix systems from source in the 1980's.  I
am not new to this and I could not figure it out.  Clearly there is a
problem with your product and no workaround documented.  Please fix this
and do not so readily close this issue.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:30 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
1967947@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It looks to me as if you are seeking support, not reporting a docs bug,
> so closing.
>
> Please use some support resource to seek support:
>
> https://ubuntu.com/support/community-support
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1967947
>
> Title:
>   WiFi will not connect to open WiFi with complicated re-direct
>
> Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>   I am at a Marriott Hotel and cannot connect to the open WiFi on
>   Ubuntu20.  The re-direct url they are using is complicated and the
>   usual tricks (which one does not have to use to connect using Windows,
>   Macs or Android) including http://<gateway-ip>, etc. do not work.
>
>   The redirect looks like (note the use of JavaScript to accomplish the
>   redirect also note the fact that I have typed this into a computer
>   that does have an internet connection):
>
>   <HTML>
>   <HEAD><TITLE>Redirecting...</TITLE>
>   <meta http-equiv="no-cache">
>   <meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:21:57 GMT">
>   </HEAD><BODY>
>   <SPAN STYLE="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> font-size: 11px;">
>   </SPAN>
>   <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
>   document.location.href="
> https://bwiam.cust.blueprintrf.com:8001/index.php?zone=guest&redirurl=https%3A%2F%2F52.1.100.109%2F
> ;
>   </SCRIPT>
>   </BODY>
>   </HTML>
>
>   Even when I paste this curl-obtained content into "connect-
>   marriott.html" and then open in Chrome or FireFox, I do not get an
>   internet connection.  Chrome seems to make it a little farther than
>   FireFox as the title bar changes to:
>   "
> https://bwiam.cust.blueprintrf.com:8001/index.php?zone=guest&redirurl=https%3A%2F%2F52.1.100.109%2F
> "
>
>   Ubuntu 20.04.04 LTS
>
>   network-manager 1.22.10-1ubuntu2.3
>
>   Expected to happen: seamlessly taken to network usage agreement page
>   on open Wi-Fi network.
>
>   What happened instead:  Wi-Fi connected, but cannot reach the
>   internet.  IPv4, IPv6 and DNS properly assigned via DCHP, just no
>   passage through gateway.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1967947/+subscriptions
>
>

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Title:
  WiFi will not connect to open WiFi with complicated re-direct

Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I am at a Marriott Hotel and cannot connect to the open WiFi on
  Ubuntu20.  The re-direct url they are using is complicated and the
  usual tricks (which one does not have to use to connect using Windows,
  Macs or Android) including http://<gateway-ip>, etc. do not work.

  The redirect looks like (note the use of JavaScript to accomplish the
  redirect also note the fact that I have typed this into a computer
  that does have an internet connection):

  <HTML>
  <HEAD><TITLE>Redirecting...</TITLE>
  <meta http-equiv="no-cache">
  <meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:21:57 GMT">
  </HEAD><BODY>
  <SPAN STYLE="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
  </SPAN>
  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
  document.location.href="https://bwiam.cust.blueprintrf.com:8001/index.php?zone=guest&redirurl=https%3A%2F%2F52.1.100.109%2F;
  </SCRIPT>
  </BODY>
  </HTML>

  Even when I paste this curl-obtained content into "connect-
  marriott.html" and then open in Chrome or FireFox, I do not get an
  internet connection.  Chrome seems to make it a little farther than
  FireFox as the title bar changes to:
  "https://bwiam.cust.blueprintrf.com:8001/index.php?zone=guest&redirurl=https%3A%2F%2F52.1.100.109%2F";

  Ubuntu 20.04.04 LTS

  network-manager 1.22.10-1ubuntu2.3

  Expected to happen: seamlessly taken to network usage agreement page
  on open Wi-Fi network.

  What happened instead:  Wi-Fi connected, but cannot reach the
  internet.  IPv4, IPv6 and DNS properly assigned via DCHP, just no
  passage through gateway.

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