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💉*10 RogerDoes anyone know the secret of connecting a laptop to Auckland Libraries' WIFI? My Android devices are fine but my Lubuntu laptop just won't. It connects, I get a DHCP address, but it doesn't register with Tomizone so all requests are blocked. I can't get it to go to the Tomizone portal so I can't do anything. Last time I tried it I sent a support request to Tomizone and got zero response. I just sent another one.
It worked about a year ago if I fiddled with the DNS settings, but not any more.
Maybe someone knows the current trick?
Julia Clement@rogerparkinson Using Debian Trixie with GNOME I issue a request for http://1.1.1.1/ which works for me on FF but not on Chrome. Chrome quietly converts http to https which the Tomizone sign-on can't read because they don't have the SSL key. They do, however trap any http request before you log in.
From your description, I'm picking the your FF has SSL anywhere turned on.
I've wondered what to do if FF decides not to work any more. I wounder what Lynx would do?
@juliaclement could be. I'm not able to test it now I'm home but I was putting http addresses into FF and seeing them switch to https, and Chromium definitely wasn't. However when I was trying Chromium earlier at the library it wasn't working. So I think the network restart must have played a part. I'll check that always https setting when I get back on my laptop. Good info, thanks.
@rogerparkinson Good luck.
If you do try Lynx, let me know how it goes please :)