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Re: [Captive-portals] CAPPORT support in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur betas

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 02 July 2020 18:55 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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Subject: Re: [Captive-portals] CAPPORT support in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur betas
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Not really a CAPPORT protocol problem... but...

Tommy Pauly <tpauly=40apple.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
    > One point I wanted to clarify: the iOS and macOS betas support for
    > CAPPORT discovery and APIs still goes through the standard and existing
    > UI flow for captive portals. The times in which the captive portal UI
    > is shown is limited, for example to times when the user is in WiFi
    > settings.

Is there a simple way for the user to get back to the portal page from the
notification bar?  Can the user choose to keep it open longer?

I noticed on the Thalys train that if you closed the portal page that it
tended to kick you off the network.  That is definitely an anti-pattern!!!
I don't know how we will cope with it, while at the same time, making it
clear that it's a bad design.

Worse was that the portal page had a nice tiled map with the current
location... AND THE TILES WERE NOT LOCAL.  So as more and more people learnt
to keep the page open... the network got significantly slower.

    > Thus, while adoption should indeed be easy and only require
    > adding a small bit of infrastructure in order to provide a flow that
    > doesn’t require redirects, the set of circumstances in which a network
    > can display content to the user is not increased.


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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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