[AusNOG] Anyone know what this is? http://203.8.182.155/generate_204

[Tim Sheahan]

I've seen these requests while doing captive portal work.

I've also noticed iOS interprets any wispr XML it finds in the reply 
html, which is part of its captive portal support.

  - Tim

On 9/10/2013 4:59 PM, Andrew Cox wrote:
> For those interested, iOS requests 
> http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html to check if it has 
> internet access.
>
> - Andrew
>
>
> On 8 October 2013 08:21, Michael Dale <mdale at dalegroup.net 
> <mailto:mdale at dalegroup.net>> wrote:
>
>     iOS has a similar thing too.
>
>     On 8 Oct 2013, at 9:20 am, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au
>     <mailto:scott at doc.net.au>> wrote:
>
>>     Android uses this URL to determine if it's behind a captive
>>     portal, and also to trigger the captive portal.
>>
>>       Scott
>
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