just use http://captive.apple.com
NeverSSL
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Re: NeverSSL
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe, but there are a bunch of smart folks here too, and no one can come up with a good reason for this costing $2k/year. It's possible $166/mo is not enough of a hit on his income so as to be worth spending time optimizing (unlikely considering how little time it'd seemingly take to optimize), or since he works for AWS it could be sponsored (which would mean he has to justify the continued cost to his bosses when t…
You know what else no one here has done? Built something cheaper and posted a link.
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Re: NeverSSL
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe, but there are a bunch of smart folks here too, and no one can come up with a good reason for this costing $2k/year. It's possible $166/mo is not enough of a hit on his income so as to be worth spending time optimizing (unlikely considering how little time it'd seemingly take to optimize), or since he works for AWS it could be sponsored (which would mean he has to justify the continued cost to his bosses when t…
You know what else no one here has done? Built something cheaper and posted a link.
> You know what else no one here has done? Built something cheaper and posted a link.
Thousands of people have built that for the past 20+ years without posting a link.
Re: NeverSSL
#204"This website is for when you try to open Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc on a wifi network, and nothing happens. Type " http://neverssl.com" into your browser's url bar, and you'll be able to log on." I don't get it. How does browsing to http://neverssl.com help you to log in to other websites?
You don't use a lot of hotel, airplane, airport, guest or otherwise captive portals do you? Most will gracefully redirect but a lot are painful. Add in things like HSTS (can't just go to Google), HTTPS Everywhere, etc and it's downright annoying to get to the portal. NeverSSL is a huge frustration reducer, especially as I've been able to just tell less technical able co-workers to just go there.
Never had any issues typing http://google.com manually and having that get redirected to the capture portals. Obviously you have to specify the protocol otherwise modern browsers will try https first.
Re: NeverSSL
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although yours is a valid reason, but I’ve had a colleague of mine who isn’t savvy enough to use this when they need to connect, but they told me they stopped using it because it would show them the page even though they haven’t connected yet because their browser cached the page somehow. I’ve adjusted by using a private/guest browsing mode to open this page but the cache busting cuts it easier for people who have no…
Ctrl-shift-R solves that?
Only if you have a keyboard. If I'm on a captive portal, most likely I'm on my phone.
Re: NeverSSL
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
The owner is Colm MacCárthaigh https://twitter.com/colmmacc . He's a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS Networking and is the author of s2n - https://github.com/awslabs/s2n . I'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing and it costs what it costs for a reason.
Maybe, but there are a bunch of smart folks here too, and no one can come up with a good reason for this costing $2k/year. It's possible $166/mo is not enough of a hit on his income so as to be worth spending time optimizing (unlikely considering how little time it'd seemingly take to optimize), or since he works for AWS it could be sponsored (which would mean he has to justify the continued cost to his bosses when t…
That's probably true. I'm paying around 70 USD per month for Azure Functions (an equivalent of AWS Lambda) because they charge like crazy for disk read/writes and my application is quite tiny, definitely could fit on a raspberry pi. But I don't bother to optimize.