[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1818517] Re: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies
[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818517 Title: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: This is with respect to the gnome-shell-portal-helper, part of the gnome-shell package, which opens its own browser window to prompt for a wifi hotspot login. It all works fine except one little papercut: Could it remember cookies? So when I go back to the same hotspot most days I don't have to click OK to accept cookies every time before I can actually click to go online. It's possible I suppose they don't all use cookies. The hotspot in question is a BT wifi hotspot, so probably quite common in GB anyway. Desired behaviour, hate to say, is like Windows: It actually remembered my choice from before and just logged me in right away. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.31.90-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.19.0-13.14-generic 4.19.20 Uname: Linux 4.19.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu21 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Mar 4 14:05:46 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-11 (173 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180214) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-01-13 (49 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1818517/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1818517] Re: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies
trying to get that screenshot was how i discovered it *does* appear to be retaining stuff for a while at least. :-) I'll try to do so next time I'm there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818517 Title: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is with respect to the gnome-shell-portal-helper, part of the gnome-shell package, which opens its own browser window to prompt for a wifi hotspot login. It all works fine except one little papercut: Could it remember cookies? So when I go back to the same hotspot most days I don't have to click OK to accept cookies every time before I can actually click to go online. It's possible I suppose they don't all use cookies. The hotspot in question is a BT wifi hotspot, so probably quite common in GB anyway. Desired behaviour, hate to say, is like Windows: It actually remembered my choice from before and just logged me in right away. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.31.90-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.19.0-13.14-generic 4.19.20 Uname: Linux 4.19.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu21 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Mar 4 14:05:46 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-11 (173 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180214) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-01-13 (49 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1818517/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1818517] Re: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies
> But in Windows, for instance, it remembered me even though I hadn't booted up windows at the cafe for *months*. Could you give some details on what you mean there. Does it remember you and doesn't ask you to click through the portal page? Or does the page ask for a login and it that's pre-entered for you? Or do you mean just the "ask to accept cookie" part? (it could be useful to make a screenshot showing that cookie part to make sure there is no misunderstanding) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818517 Title: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is with respect to the gnome-shell-portal-helper, part of the gnome-shell package, which opens its own browser window to prompt for a wifi hotspot login. It all works fine except one little papercut: Could it remember cookies? So when I go back to the same hotspot most days I don't have to click OK to accept cookies every time before I can actually click to go online. It's possible I suppose they don't all use cookies. The hotspot in question is a BT wifi hotspot, so probably quite common in GB anyway. Desired behaviour, hate to say, is like Windows: It actually remembered my choice from before and just logged me in right away. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.31.90-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.19.0-13.14-generic 4.19.20 Uname: Linux 4.19.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu21 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Mar 4 14:05:46 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-11 (173 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180214) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-01-13 (49 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1818517/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1818517] Re: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies
actually i think cookies are being held for at least a while, as, sitting in the cafe, I can log out and in, and even reboot, and get logged directly back into the hotspot. But when I come back the next day I'm asked if I even want to accept cookies. It's that being asked to accept cookies every day [that I go there] that annoys me, not whether or not it actually logs me in or i have to click on a button to connect. But in Windows, for instance, it remembered me even though I hadn't booted up windows at the cafe for *months*. so i'm guessing there is cookie retention going on, but on a rather short timeout. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818517 Title: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is with respect to the gnome-shell-portal-helper, part of the gnome-shell package, which opens its own browser window to prompt for a wifi hotspot login. It all works fine except one little papercut: Could it remember cookies? So when I go back to the same hotspot most days I don't have to click OK to accept cookies every time before I can actually click to go online. It's possible I suppose they don't all use cookies. The hotspot in question is a BT wifi hotspot, so probably quite common in GB anyway. Desired behaviour, hate to say, is like Windows: It actually remembered my choice from before and just logged me in right away. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.31.90-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.19.0-13.14-generic 4.19.20 Uname: Linux 4.19.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu21 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Mar 4 14:05:46 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-11 (173 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180214) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-01-13 (49 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1818517/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1818517] Re: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies
Seb, I think what he means is not aoto-fill of the login credentials, but rather how cookies are handled. On modern web sites it is standard now to ask the user before starting to use Cookies. Usually there a[ppears a question on the site the first time you visit it (the question is provided by the site, not by the browser). On a normal web browser (like Firefox or Chromium) once answered the question the answer gets somehow remembered so that it does not get asked again if you visit the site another time. But not only usual web site ask such a question. Captive portals sometimes do it, too. And as the trigger of network-manager does not make them getting oipened in a standard web browser but in some minimum web page displayer probably the answer to the Cookie question does not get remembered locally. Perhaps this remembering is done by a Cookie and the simple displayer does not support (=ignores) Cookies and so the question gets asked again and again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818517 Title: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is with respect to the gnome-shell-portal-helper, part of the gnome-shell package, which opens its own browser window to prompt for a wifi hotspot login. It all works fine except one little papercut: Could it remember cookies? So when I go back to the same hotspot most days I don't have to click OK to accept cookies every time before I can actually click to go online. It's possible I suppose they don't all use cookies. The hotspot in question is a BT wifi hotspot, so probably quite common in GB anyway. Desired behaviour, hate to say, is like Windows: It actually remembered my choice from before and just logged me in right away. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.31.90-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.19.0-13.14-generic 4.19.20 Uname: Linux 4.19.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu21 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Mar 4 14:05:46 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-11 (173 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180214) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-01-13 (49 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1818517/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1818517] Re: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies
i mean literally http web cookies from the portal page. if you ignore the network login app (as was the case before it worked reliably), it shows up in your normal browser. This does remember cookies, so you don't get asked if you want to accept cookies every time you go there. What the portal does when it's presented with the cookie it gave you on your last visit is, i think, a matter for the portal. My guess is that it's probably *it* that would auto-connect you under whatever circumstances it sees fit. Otherwise you just get the normal "Click to connect" button. I think *all* this needs is the support for, and storage of, HTTP cookies from the portal, in whatever's providing the browser window component of the Network Login app. My talk of auto-login stuff was just confusing the matter, ignore it. :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818517 Title: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is with respect to the gnome-shell-portal-helper, part of the gnome-shell package, which opens its own browser window to prompt for a wifi hotspot login. It all works fine except one little papercut: Could it remember cookies? So when I go back to the same hotspot most days I don't have to click OK to accept cookies every time before I can actually click to go online. It's possible I suppose they don't all use cookies. The hotspot in question is a BT wifi hotspot, so probably quite common in GB anyway. Desired behaviour, hate to say, is like Windows: It actually remembered my choice from before and just logged me in right away. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.31.90-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.19.0-13.14-generic 4.19.20 Uname: Linux 4.19.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu21 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Mar 4 14:05:46 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-11 (173 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180214) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-01-13 (49 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1818517/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1818517] Re: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies
Thank you for your bug report. What do you call "cookie" exactly in that context? You would like the system to auto validate the portals you already visited without showing anything? That's probably something more for the backend side, also worth reporting upstream who probably has more an opinion about that https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues Other platforms don't do that either, do they? (e.g android). Unsure if that would be legal to 'bypass' the portal, the user is supposed to give his explicit consent that he's using the service ** Package changed: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) => network-manager (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818517 Title: "Network Login" browser does not remember cookies Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This is with respect to the gnome-shell-portal-helper, part of the gnome-shell package, which opens its own browser window to prompt for a wifi hotspot login. It all works fine except one little papercut: Could it remember cookies? So when I go back to the same hotspot most days I don't have to click OK to accept cookies every time before I can actually click to go online. It's possible I suppose they don't all use cookies. The hotspot in question is a BT wifi hotspot, so probably quite common in GB anyway. Desired behaviour, hate to say, is like Windows: It actually remembered my choice from before and just logged me in right away. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.31.90-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.19.0-13.14-generic 4.19.20 Uname: Linux 4.19.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu21 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Mar 4 14:05:46 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-11 (173 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180214) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-01-13 (49 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1818517/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
