How to make Captive Portal open a browser?

Question

I installed the Captive Portal with dd-wrt, wifidog, authpuppy and some plugins from authpuppy, as well as with my own web application.

• I am wondering exactly what thing that will launch the browser on the client device before the popup ?
• Is the iPhone / iPad pop-up browser a regular browser mode?
  
  • It seems that incorrect JavaScript will work in browser mode, for example, shake.js event, although iOS Safari version> 4.2.1 from https://github.com/alexgibson/shake.js/

PS :.

I did a study for example

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal
• https://personaltelco.net/wiki/CaptivePortal

they are not talking about a popup browser.

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

If you try to see the network statistics [request / response], you will find that devices such as ios and android, both of them constantly get to some special URLs [in the case of android it is www.google.com/generate_204 , do not remember exact url for ios]. These URLs are generated internally by the system. These messages let their server know about various details. Thus, as soon as ios connects to an unclaimed portal, it tries to get to the system generated URL, as a result of which it realizes that it is network protected at the packet level and opens the browser.

Hope this helps.