I also found that the free "Starbucks AT&T WiFi" is a complete hassle to log into.
1. Enter Phone Number into AT&T dialogue box when prompted 2. Submit and Wait. 3. Eventually Recieve SMS message 4. Click (touch) link in SMS message. 5. Surf (Finally) while enjoying your beverage of choice. Sucks. There's an native app available that does everything by just launching it. Conclusion: Does not suck as much. Allows additional servers to be added. It's called Easy WiFi (No affiliation on my part) http://gizmodo.com/5101159/iphone-app-makes-logging-on-to-free-att-wi+fi-not-suck I'm just sayin' Christopher Scott Knell Burbank, CA On Dec 12, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Michael Stearne wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:00 PM, markdionne <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I'm walking down the street and my AJAX-based iPhone app is working >> just fine via the Edge network. I stop in front of Starbucks for a >> minute, and the Edge indicator changes to the WIFI indicator. All my >> AJAX calls stop working. >> >> What's happening is that the WIFI seems to be there, but I am not >> logged in. (I don't get the popup asking if I want to use the WIFI. I >> guess I once said it was OK.) This probably happens at many >> subscription-based WIFI sites. > > Yeah. In general I keep the wifi off (for battery reasons also) but > Apple is favoring a Wifi connection to the EDGE or 3G networks. This > is also a pain when there is a weak WIFI signal. > > Michael > > >> >> The annoying thing is that in this case the XMLHttpRequest just >> returns a readyState of 1 and nothing more. If I put the phone in >> Airplane Mode, then I get ReadyState 4 with a status of 0, and I can >> tell the user the network is not available. To fix this problem, I >> will need to add some timeout logic. >> >> (If I visit some web page, I get redirected to secure.sbc.com and I >> can log in for free for 24 hours at that location. Then the WIFI will >> work just fine. But it's easier just to turn off the WIFI and use >> Edge. Unless you have an iPod Touch, this free WIFI seems like >> nothing >> but a pain unless you need big bandwidth.) >> >> This behavior affects other apps as well. Anything that needs web >> access will just fail mysteriously: NY Times, Bloomberg, Sports pages >> etc. >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
