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Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)
From: Andrew Cox <andrew () accessplus com au>
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:30:17 +1030
Yeah the iPhone changes were a bit of a pain, we had to build a second iPhone specific version of our login page because the iPhone "auto-login" feature won't allow more than 1 page to be loaded.
We would normally redirect users to the page they've originally requested after they click the login button as well as opening a status popup for them to logout and keep track of usage. Not on the iPhone thou, they're using a cut-down safari browser that won't allow more than 1 tab to load and worst of all, if you close off the page it simply disconnects from the wireless network.
Andrew
It's gotta be difficult for the hotspot networks. Even at&t can't seem to make it all work right even when they control both sides; I've seen iPhones just hang when connecting to attwifi (and I can say I've seenit not work in some way maybe even more often than I've seen it actually work). At least the iPhone seems to have some built-in support for thissort of thing. (Anybody know anything more about that?) ... JG
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- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style), (continued)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Andrew Cox (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Jens Link (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) - path asumption bmanning (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) - path asumption Christopher Morrow (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Stephen Sprunk (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Joe Greco (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Andrew Cox (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Mark Andrews (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Leo Bicknell (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Seth Mattinen (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Joe Abley (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Tony Finch (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Sean Donelan (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Andrew Cox (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Michael Thomas (Dec 08)
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