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2 votes c/freepost Posted by SylvieLorxu — 2 votes, 4 commentsSource

Useful little site for captive portals so you can actually be redirected and login.

I’m dumb. Apart from the memorial aspect, is this useful in some other way?

It’s useful for public WiFi with captive portals (those systems that redirect you to another site to click an “I accept the terms and conditions” button before you can use the WiFi) because those can’t redirect HTTPS because of certificate mismatches then.

So it’s a way of bypassing logins and registrations on those kinds of networks?

No, it’s a way of actually being able to reach the login page, because those networks can’t redirect HTTPS websites to the login page due to how SSL works, yet you always need to login to use it.