Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:27:02 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Wifi && connect from Android YourFreedom App (a bit OT) Message-ID: <20131218122702.GA1609@tiny-r255948>
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Hello, I returned last night from Havana, Cuba. They have now Wifi in the hotels and my FreeBSD netbook (10-CURRENT) connected fine, on start of WPA you get an IP addr by DHCP and the first page in a browser (FF 24.0) re-directed you to a page to enter the credentials (login, password for around 4 USD per hour); a lot of cubans were sitting around with their laptops and Android based tablets using the Wifi zone of the hotel; I talked to someone and he said he was using some App 'Your Freedom' (or something like that) and was not asked for credentials to connect to his Facebook account, etc. This surprised me a bit, how this could work technically, and that's why I wanted to ask it here: how this could bypass the credential page, because I could not route traffic through the assigned IP on the WLAN interface without passing the credential page... how this could work with this App? My interest is only technically or due to the surprise, I do not want to use such trick on FreeBSD and I do not have any Android device. Thanks matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz, <guru@unixarea.de>, http://www.unixarea.de/ f: +49-170-4527211 UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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