On 07/10/2012 03:06 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 14:48 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 02:41:35 PM Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: >>> As for the actual change, it is limited to the >>> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file; to which the following >>> will be added: >>> >>> [connectivity] >>> uri=http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html >>> response=Lorem ipsum >>> >>> See the manual page for NetworkManager.conf(5) for the details of what >>> these settings do. >>> >>> Please let me know if you have questions or think there are good >>> reasons not to enable this feature. If there is no response by the end >>> of the week, I'd like to proceed with a enabling this in Quantal and >>> making sure it gets well tested. >> >> I think that a significant fraction of Ubuntu's user base is (reasonably) >> very >> sensitive about privacy issues. While this is no worse the the NTP check >> that >> already exists (that is controversial), I don't think it should be enabled >> by >> default. > > I think that for those who are concerned, this is trivial to disable. > But, I think what happens for those who are, is that Ubuntu "does the > right thing" by default. If you're at a hotel or other location that > captures for a login page, you won't get your mail and apt and ... all > downloading bogus stuff. > > --Ted
There are other ways to detect such cases without having the machine connect to an external service. Someone suggested on IRC to implement a doesnt-exist.ubuntu.com which is essentially a record that Canonical would guarantee never to exist in the ubuntu.com. zone. If you can resolve or even access that host, then you are behind some kind of captive portal/proxy. -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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