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CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to guest WiFi

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Re: CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to guest WiFi

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Post by ykat7 »

I like the straightforward explanation this site provides. That said, I tend to use http://example.com to trigger captive portals because it's an IANA reserved domain [1] that other people can't register.

This gives me confidence to browse to it without fear that the domain could lapse in the future and get taken over (e.g. in a watering hole attack).

[1]: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

Re: CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to guest WiFi

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Post by srhngpr »

ykat7 wrote: post #2

I like the straightforward explanation this site provides. That said, I tend to use http://example.com to trigger captive portals because it's an IANA reserved domain [1] that other people can't register. This gives me confidence to browse to it without fear that the domain could lapse in the future and get taken over (e.g. in a watering hole attack). [1]: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

Agreed - I always use example.com as well.

Also worth noting that example.net, while not listed on the IANA page, is also reserved.

Re: CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to guest WiFi

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Post by colejohnson66 »

ykat7 wrote: post #2

I like the straightforward explanation this site provides. That said, I tend to use http://example.com to trigger captive portals because it's an IANA reserved domain [1] that other people can't register. This gives me confidence to browse to it without fear that the domain could lapse in the future and get taken over (e.g. in a watering hole attack). [1]: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

iOS (and macOS?) use http://captive.apple.com/
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