Re: wireless dhcp sign in

# The way that captive portals work (as I understand it) is to
# essentially block all traffic except web requests, which they redirect
# to the authentication page.  In the case of nocat (in personaltelco
# land anyway) the authentication page is basically an "I agree not to
# do bad things".  When you click that the blanket blockage is removed
# and you have access.  The DHCP server needs to give you an address
# anyway or you can't talk enough to do the authentication.

Bluesockets work the same way.

http://www.bluesocket.com/

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