How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or full Internet access

Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by httpz on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:11PM (#33666012)

I'm not sure if it's still in use but iPhones used to hit http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html to test connectivity.

I used to use it to test connectivity on my own apps because Apple is probably better at making sure a url reachable than I am.

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by woodruffw on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:21PM (#33666086)

I believe they hit http://captive.apple.com now (and that's what I use).

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by bombcar on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:39AM (#33667645)

They use more than that, I've seen it on the wire (to prevent DNS caching I believe).

http://neverssl.com also works

And https://1.1.1.1 breaks people's brains if they know enough

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by askvictor on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:44AM (#33667992)

Even more fun: https://16843009

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by 9dev on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:56AM (#33668065)

Did they actually issue the certificate for that??

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by ev1 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @03:13AM (#33668168)

No, your browser converts it before access

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by tlaundal on Saturday November 19, 2022 @04:11AM (#33668475)

And there's https://1.1

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by petesergeant on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:50AM (#33669310)

I prefer https://1.1.257

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by loevborg on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:37AM (#33669574)

I like

http://uz

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by erlendellingsen on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:29AM (#33667930)

Whenever I access a public Wi-Fi with login / captive portal, and the portal doesn’t show up immediately, I enter captive.apple.com in Safari to trigger it! Works every time (iPhone)

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by wiseleo on Monday November 21, 2022 @09:43PM (#33701102)

I use example.com :) Less typing.

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by rzzzt on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:51AM (#33669046)

http://example.com is also good.

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by loginatnine on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:08AM (#33670164)

For french speaking gals/guys, there's http://perdu.com too (lost.com basically)

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Re:How Windows decide whether your computer has limited or f... by t0bia_s on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:54AM (#33668057)

Same for Android which always call to Google everytime device connect to WiFi. At least you can change captive portal via ADB, I'm not sure if iOS let you do that too.

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