Bug 503997 - User should be prompted to navigate to the captive portal page when connected to a network using one
Summary: User should be prompted to navigate to the captive portal page when connected...
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: angelfish
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jonah Brüchert
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Reported: 2025-05-10 10:02 UTC by Bart Ribbers
Modified: 2025-05-10 10:02 UTC (History)
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Description Bart Ribbers 2025-05-10 10:02:20 UTC
Some networks, often public ones, use captive portals to ask the user to consent with it's terms of agreement. Browsers on desktop are aware of such portals, often by checking access to sites like http://detectportal.firefox.com and see if it's captured by a portal, but Angelfish isn't. It'll just fail to load any webpage without informing the user why this is.
Ideally it uses pages like http://detectportal.firefox.com (or some KDE-specific non-SSL accessible page) to detect the user needs to navigate to a portal and prompt the user to do so.