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Resolved iOS 6 WiFi Problem (Resolved)
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It's checking to see if the wifi has an internet connection or if it is a captive portal you need to log in to. If the wifi requires a log in, it shows the page it redirects you to even if you aren't in a web browser. Before they added this, you'd be trying to figure out why your app isn't working until you tried safari and got the login page there.
Looks like the server it connects to to test the connection is broken.
Same thing here. iOS 6 and AirPort Extreme.
So many people are experiencing this. How could this have slipped past QA Testing?
So many people are experiencing this. How could this have slipped past QA Testing?
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The following page on apple.com is down:
http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html
This is what iOS uses to detect if you're behind a "captive network." I guess it thinks everyone is behind a non-internet-reachable network right now, so it disconnects.
http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html
This is what iOS uses to detect if you're behind a "captive network." I guess it thinks everyone is behind a non-internet-reachable network right now, so it disconnects.
I'm also getting this problem on an iPod touch 4th generation. I think I'll hold fire on upgrading my other devices until this has been resolved. Glad I'm not the only one.
Happening to everyone in our office that upgraded. We noticed that the phone makes a request to http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html right before kicking the message. Not sure if it's related, but there's definitely something funky there.
Edit - wow, yea, earlier, we noticed that this file was returning text that said "Success", and now it's returning a 404 page. We're thinking it's some request to see if there is network connectivity or something, and since it's no longer returning "Success", it's causing this WiFi issue.
Edit #2 - Yep - just what we thought. Check this post from 2010: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2010/09/apples-secret-wispr-request.html
Edit - wow, yea, earlier, we noticed that this file was returning text that said "Success", and now it's returning a 404 page. We're thinking it's some request to see if there is network connectivity or something, and since it's no longer returning "Success", it's causing this WiFi issue.
Edit #2 - Yep - just what we thought. Check this post from 2010: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2010/09/apples-secret-wispr-request.html
Happening here too. Which is weird because I installed it yesterday and it was working on my home wifi just fine. But all of a sudden today, I get home and this happens.
I came here exactly to post that link.
Does anyone know if iOS 5 uses the same file and if iOS 5 devices are also having the problem?
iPad 2 - OK
iPhone 4 - OK
iPhone 4S - Not connecting to wifi (goes to apple.com login page)
coincidentally, this is the order I updated the devices.
iPhone 4 - OK
iPhone 4S - Not connecting to wifi (goes to apple.com login page)
coincidentally, this is the order I updated the devices.
Same here
iPhone 4S won't connect -- it gets the strange web Apple login page. I tried turning off cellular data; that didn't work. I tried turning on auto-join; that didn't work. "The New iPad" is still connecting to my home network just fine.
Update 15 minutes later: it's working again.
iPhone 4S won't connect -- it gets the strange web Apple login page. I tried turning off cellular data; that didn't work. I tried turning on auto-join; that didn't work. "The New iPad" is still connecting to my home network just fine.
Update 15 minutes later: it's working again.
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Crap! I updated my iPad earlier today, no issues. Then updated my iPhone, no issues. Now I get home and tell my wife it's safe, update yours too. And then this issue! Now she's going to be really mad at me. At least on the cell phone there's 3G, on her wifi only iPad there isn't so now it can't do anything online.
Let's hope they fix this asap. It's not an iOS issue, it's something on their servers down.
Let's hope they fix this asap. It's not an iOS issue, it's something on their servers down.
dreadful carry on. stayed up
late to update iPhone 4S and iPad 3. now neither can connect to my own home wifi. how could problem this severe get missed?
why does connecting to local wifi depend on apple.com ?
late to update iPhone 4S and iPad 3. now neither can connect to my own home wifi. how could problem this severe get missed?
why does connecting to local wifi depend on apple.com ?