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Feature: WiFi Portal Environments #925

Open quozl opened 4 years ago

quozl commented 4 years ago

Some locations have a WiFi portal that when accessed using macOS, Windows, Android, or iOS open a browser window and visit a supplied web page for authentication or acceptance of terms and conditions.

Sugar does not provide this feature yet.

chimosky commented 4 years ago

I don't think this issue is from sugar as I remember some years back I was able to view wifi portal environments on my XO, I don't have any wifi I could use to test this at the moment though.

srevinsaju commented 4 years ago

@chimosky afaik, what @quozl might have mentioned is a sign-in to connect to WiFi mode of connection. There are many free public wifi's which require us to sign in before connection. Android phones show a WebBrowserIntent as a notification and ask the user to sign into the Browser to complete connecting to internet. Maybe sugar has not implemented the sign-in to connect method of WiFi,

I hope I did not misinterpret what @quozl meant. This is what I understood

quozl commented 4 years ago

Agreed, it's more than just using Browse to interact with the portal. Other operating systems launch a minibrowser in response. We use WebKit for Help in Sugar, so we know we can do that kind of thing, we just need to request and handle the event.

chimosky commented 4 years ago

I now understand what you meant as earlier I thought you meant the interaction with the portal using Browse.