Curious MintsGetting captive portal Wi-Fi to work on Omarchy
Hotel Wi-Fi login page never showed up on my Omarchy laptop. xdg-open http://captive.apple.com fixed it - plain http instead of HTTPS is the important bit.
I was traveling and trying to connect my Omarchy laptop to the hotel Wi-Fi. It had a captive portal, but the login page wouldn’t show up.
What worked was opening a plain HTTP page:
xdg-open http://captive.apple.comThere’s nothing special about captive.apple.com. The important bit is using http:// rather than HTTPS. That gives the Wi-Fi network a chance to redirect the request to its captive portal.
What is
xdg-open?
xdg-openopens whatever you give it using the default application for it. Give it a URL, and it opens your default browser. Give it a PDF, and it opens your PDF viewer.It’s basically the Linux equivalent of
openon macOS.
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