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Currently this page talks mostly about how to implement the fake captive portal. | Currently this page talks mostly about how to implement the fake captive portal. | ||
= Alternative Options = | |||
After some thought and investigation, there some alternative options that build off the proposed actions above and the research in the sections following. Instead of listening for captive portal requests and then responding with a fake captive portal, we do a few different things. First, let's consider the use case: | |||
<blockquote>Ideally, we want new users to know what this network is about.</blockquote> | |||
Running a default captive portal is simply not an option. It impedes usage of the network. However, what if there was an unobtrusive way to display a message to users that did not require using the crappy captive portal mechanism, or a complicated match on special captive portal probes. | |||
= Types of captive portal detection = | = Types of captive portal detection = |