RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Defeating Android 8.X Captive Portal detection

2017-09-06 Thread Thomas Carter
Yes, we have had some who have had trouble in the past say they also sometimes had issues at Starbucks, et al. So the assumption that EDU is the only place they have issues may not be correct. I do think there should be better communication between wireless vendors, wireless device makers (esp

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Defeating Android 8.X Captive Portal detection

2017-09-06 Thread Curtis K. Larsen
My comment had more to do with standardized captive browser behavior across operating systems than ease of use. Unless you are inferring that all of EDU go without a captive portal. Most of the public places I visit have a captive portal so I'd say the same questions apply there too. -Curtis

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Defeating Android 8.X Captive Portal detection

2017-09-06 Thread Jeffrey D. Sessler
On 9/6/17, 8:46 AM, "The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Curtis K. Larsen" wrote: It would be really nice if Google would join the club and allow their captive browser to switch

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2017-09-06 Thread Richard Nedwich
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Re: Defeating Android 8.X Captive Portal detection

2017-09-06 Thread Curtis K. Larsen
We had the same problem. We even discovered Android phones that were set to proxy (web-caching feature) requests to google.com so they would never even see/accept the captive portal AUP at all. We switched to WiSPr (all blocked) and then the problem was that as soon as the internet became

RE: Defeating Android 8.X Captive Portal detection

2017-09-06 Thread Turner, Ryan H
So, for the time being, I am adding some very simple javascript to the landing page. If it detects Android 8, it will display a message telling the user that after login, they must close the browser and open a new one and goto wifi.unc.edu. I am going to play around with the browser

RE: Defeating Android 8.X Captive Portal detection

2017-09-06 Thread Turner, Ryan H
We haven't had the problem with OSX. I worked hard to get rid of captive portal detection on all browsers. Everything has been great, until now. We have a setup like this: We use a pfSense firewall on an onboarding SSID. Users have 2 states: unauthenticated and authenticated. Prior to be