<p>Thanks Alex. I was able to confirm that both my Android and Windows machine on a new dhcp lease the machine makes a request for a particular url and if that is redirected presents the captive portal message.</p>
<p>I'm going to take a closer look at the dhcp messages to confirm when this is happening.</p>
<p>Thanks again</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 27, 2014 8:06 AM, "Alex Xu" <<a href="mailto:alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca">alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 26/05/14 08:23 PM, Donald Chisholm wrote:<br>
> Recently I have noticed that on connect some wifi hotspots provide a popup<br>
> message indicating that the user must login to obtain Internet access.<br>
> Since the user has not yet opened a browser I figure this feature is<br>
> implemented via a DHCP option. I found references to the<br>
> proposed Captive-Portal identification in DHCP draft-wkumari-dhc-capport-00<br>
> (<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-dhc-capport-00" target="_blank">http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-dhc-capport-00</a>) which seems to be<br>
> what I am looking for but it does not mention a proposed option number.<br>
><br>
> Anyone here know what the option is called or can point me in the direction<br>
> of how this may be implemented.<br>
<br>
this has nothing to do with dhcp. basically what Windows does is it<br>
tries to GET a file on msft servers, and if it gets redirected or<br>
otherwise receives the wrong page, it assumes there is a portal.<br>
<br>
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