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- Wed Aug 31, 2016 7:15 am #54165 Oh, by the way - for anyone seeking to try this, there's another thing I noticed. If you try to use a browser like google chrome (on android - I assume the same will be the case for anything Bing or the like) it will try to do a search on anything and everything that does not resemble a hostname. This is even the case for something like 'mydevice.local' even if you include the http:// in front of it. the problem is that google appends it to a https://www.google.com?whole=bunch&of=search&crap=etc

Which means that https will crap out and return a failure rather than redirecting the user to somewhere you want them to go. If I use something like mydevice.com, mydevice.org or mydevice.net after http:// it goes just fine because chrome thinks it's a domain and tries going direct first. Yay google! *just shakes head*

Someone should grab them and bitch slap them for that.

- Wed Aug 31, 2016 2:22 pm #54194 I found appending '/' helps chrome/firefox do http instead of search. For example, "z/" is handled as if the user entered "http://z/". This returns in the captive portal web page.

The https case failure will be more common as more sites force https.