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Re: NeverSSL

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Post by Iv »

hk__2 wrote: post #66

http://neverssl.com/changes > I also want to keep neverssl.com ad free, but as it's now costing me about $2,000 a year to host it, […] Wait, how could hosting a static website cost $2k/year?!

I have been using http://perdu.com/ for 20 years for that purpose.

Simple, probably a 386 computer plugged in somewhere. Never changed.

It is just a joke, the domain means "lost" in French and says "Lost on the internet? Don't panic! We are here to help you: * Hasn't changed in 20 years, has no javascript, no tracker. Exist since before websites had ads everywhere, and know it would be laughable to put ads on it.

Re: NeverSSL

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Post by mttpgn »

m0dest wrote: post #81

If you’re using a mainstream OS that automatically detects standard captive portals, the main reason why you’ll need this is for “tiered” captive portals like the ones offered on some airplanes. Those tiered captive portals have unique requirements that conflict with OS behavior: A) By default, they want to offer some limited Internet access, such as accessing a sponsored site (often a shopping site like Amazon) or s…

I've also used the site to demonstrate cURL and GET requests on a basic level, since there's no TLS handshake to gum up the simplicity of seeing simple HTML returned from a barebones CLI command.

Re: NeverSSL

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Post by lucb1e »

fastball wrote: post #101
lucb1e wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always used my own IP until I got to a portal that didn't work with that. Now I use a subdomain of my site. Then one very smart captive portal "moved permanently"'d that and my browser cached it, as it should, and on the next WiFi it tried to load the old one's captive portal x_x. Not sure what the solution is for that, it would happen with neverssl or any of the alternative domains mentioned here as well. I guess…

NeverSSL already does that for you.

Yeah but if that redirect gets overridden...

Re: NeverSSL

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Post by notatoad »

lima wrote: post #77
Evanbenn wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

right! they need to set up a cloudflare proxy, or have github host it for example.

Can't do any useful caching for a purposefully cache-busting website

it's not cache-busting, it's captive-portal busting. there's no reason it couldn't be cached on some service that charges less for bandwidth than AWS does.

Re: NeverSSL

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Post by moltar »

hk__2 wrote: post #66

http://neverssl.com/changes > I also want to keep neverssl.com ad free, but as it's now costing me about $2,000 a year to host it, […] Wait, how could hosting a static website cost $2k/year?!

Ya maybe use Netlify? It’s free!

Re: NeverSSL

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Post by ay »

m0dest wrote: post #81

If you’re using a mainstream OS that automatically detects standard captive portals, the main reason why you’ll need this is for “tiered” captive portals like the ones offered on some airplanes. Those tiered captive portals have unique requirements that conflict with OS behavior: A) By default, they want to offer some limited Internet access, such as accessing a sponsored site (often a shopping site like Amazon) or s…

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7710 tries to solve this at network level..
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