Glad to hear the issue is resolved!
We are working on a better handling of these kind of mecanism.

Cheers!
dw.

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> On Oct 22, 2014, at 08:00, Ron Peeters <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thank you all very much.
> 
> We have indeed resolved our issue by
> - removing the secure redirect to the captive portal and
> - changing the url for the packetfence system to a .net site
> 
> everything is now working well.
> 
> I thank you all very much for your support, feedback and clear explanations. 
> 
> Met vriendelijke groet, With kind regards,
> 
> Ron Peeters
> Если ничего не помогает, Читайте руководства.
> 
> 
> 2014-10-16 22:14 GMT+02:00 Brian Lucas <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> Yes! This mailing list is great!  Thanks so much!
> 
> On Oct 16, 2014 3:13 PM, "Sandro Wambier" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Nice feedback Derek!
> 
> Att
> 
> Sandro Wambier
> 
> Em 16/10/2014 10:56, "Derek Wuelfrath" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> escreveu:
> Ron,
> 
>> Your pf box is not named something like hostname.local by any chance?
> 
> As Anton said, IOS 8 (re)introduce a “bug” (or maybe it’s a feature… who 
> knows) that .local domain names are only resolved on a MDNS level. Which 
> means that, when the device is trying to phone home to detect Internet 
> connectivity, PacketFence is returning the captive-portal URL and if it is 
> somethingsomething.local, the iDevice will not resolve it and will fail 
> silently leaving the user without an Internet connectivity since network 
> access is not granted if the iDevice doesn’t successfully phone home.
> 
>> Our iOS devices are not playing well with the fact that we don't have 
>> trusted certs and the automatic "you must sign into to this network" feature 
>> in iOS 8 doesn't play well with untrusted sites. You have to open a browser 
>> and force it to let the portal load.
>> 
> As Brian said, IOS 8 will not allow an https connection with a self-signed 
> certificate in the “CaptivePortalSupport” browser (the popup that… pops up 
> when you connect to a captive-portal secure SSID which ask you to log in). 
> You will have to different choices which are “Connect to another network” or 
> “Use the device without Internet”. You may be able to openup a web browser 
> but I think that in any case, the iDevice will disconnect you from the SSID.
> 
>> Even in http (not https) portal?
>> 
> 
> That will work
> 
>> I didn't know a non https portal was an option? O.o
>> 
> 
> Yep, it is. captive_portal.secure_redirect = disabled
> 
> Cheers!
> dw.
> 
> —
> Derek Wuelfrath
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> 
> On Oct 14, 2014, at 18:15, Sandro Wambier <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> My mistake, I was thinking in another solution, lol
>> 
>> Em 14/10/2014 17:51, "Brian Lucas" <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> escreveu:
>> I didn't know a non https portal was an option? O.o
>> 
>> On Oct 14, 2014 3:47 PM, "Sandro Wambier" <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Even in http (not https) portal?
>> 
>> Att.
>> 
>> Sandro Wambier
>> 
>> Em 14/10/2014 17:30, "Brian Lucas" <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> escreveu:
>> Our iOS devices are not playing well with the fact that we don't have 
>> trusted certs and the automatic "you must sign into to this network" feature 
>> in iOS 8 doesn't play well with untrusted sites. You have to open a browser 
>> and force it to let the portal load.
>> On Oct 14, 2014 2:19 PM, "Anton Dreyer" <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Your pf box is not named something like hostname.local by any chance? I 
>> noticed the same issue today, renamed to hostname.net <http://hostname.net/> 
>> and iOS devices started hitting the portal again
>> 
>> 
>> On 14 Oct 2014, at 20:20, Ron Peeters <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I've used packetfence for my guestnet installation.
>>> 
>>> Everything is working as expected and we are very fond of it.
>>> 
>>> A new issue has arisen, that is the new Apple ios devices are not showing 
>>> the captive portal.
>>> 
>>> Windows and android guests are working fine, ios shows page not available.
>>> 
>>> Any clue?
>>> 
>>> I'm using Pf 4.4.1
>>> Currently I have no apple device for testing, but it looks like the device 
>>> is disconnecting from wifi for no apparent reason. 
>>> My guestnet is used in line.
>>> 
>>> With regards,
>>> 
>>> Ron.
>>> 
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