Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check

Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check by kalleboo on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:21AM (#7617040)

When you connect to a Wifi network, iOS checks http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html to see if you're in a captive portal (and pop up a full screen webview to let you log into the wifi, or cancel to fail out of it)

I imagine if Apple's DNS settings got screwed up or their server was throwing up something other than "Success" due to an error, iOS devices around the world would claim their Wifi needed a login and wasn't working.

edit: another comment further down linked this article that says that exactly the same thing happened to iOS http://www.zdnet.com/what-went-wrong-with-ios-6-wi-fi-700000...

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Re:Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check by Mister_Snuggles on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:50AM (#7617176)

I was actually hoping that I'd see some misbehaviour when I ran my little test, but on the surface it appears that Apple learned from that mistake.

The results might have been different if I had ran the test longer or turned WiFi off and back on or something.

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