Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:06:33 +0100 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wifi && connect from Android YourFreedom App (a bit OT) Message-ID: <b38726e23194ae64ae3e9aad2c9fcf02@mail.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <20131218122702.GA1609@tiny-r255948> References: <20131218122702.GA1609@tiny-r255948>
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Am 2013-12-18 13:27, schrieb Matthias Apitz: > Hello, > > I returned last night from Havana, Cuba. They have now Wifi in the > hotels and my FreeBSD netbook (10-CURRENT) connected fine, on start of > WPA you get an IP addr by DHCP and the first page in a browser (FF > 24.0) > re-directed you to a page to enter the credentials (login, password for > around 4 USD per hour); a lot of cubans were sitting around with their > laptops and Android based tablets using the Wifi zone of the hotel; > > I talked to someone and he said he was using some App 'Your Freedom' > (or something like that) and was not asked for credentials to connect > to his Facebook account, etc. This surprised me a bit, how this could > work technically, and that's why I wanted to ask it here: how this > could > bypass the credential page, because I could not route traffic through > the assigned IP on the WLAN interface without passing the credential > page... how this could work with this App? My interest is only > technically or due to the surprise, I do not want to use such trick on > FreeBSD and I do not have any Android device. It's possibly tunneled via port 53 (DNS)?
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