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Re:CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to gu... by colejohnson66 on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:48PM (#27774569)
iOS (and macOS?) use http://captive.apple.com/
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Re:CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to gu... by pftburger on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:51PM (#27774625)
Yea I use this manually some times as well.

Great for low bandwidth tests Just displays clean “success”

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Re:CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to gu... by moftz on Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:24PM (#27775152)
Mozilla also has one that Firefox will use when detecting captive portals: http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt
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Re:CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to gu... by elcritch on Thursday July 08, 2021 @04:51PM (#27777438)
I like neverssl.com, it's a nice basic text page.
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Re:CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to gu... by hartator on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:59PM (#27774745)
Clean "Success" sssSsss
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Re:CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to gu... by imwillofficial on Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:35PM (#27775294)
I read this in the voice of Cobra Commander
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Re:CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to gu... by forty on Thursday July 08, 2021 @06:28PM (#27778392)
That means apple.com cannot be HSTS preloaded, which is too bad for security.
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Re:CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to gu... by mwambua on Thursday July 08, 2021 @01:03PM (#27774809)
I've used this on Linux as well.
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