I'm having trouble accessing my hotel's wifi connection from my iPad and iPhone 3GS. The process works on my MacBook Pro, and I believe it fails because the wireless access point used by my hotel requires logging in to a popup window.
My iOS devices are finding the network just fine. In Settings > Network > Wi-Fi, when I click on the network name, the "E" icon beside the "AT&T" text in the top status bar turns into the familiar wifi signal strength. Then a "Log In" overlay sweeps up from the bottom of the screen as normal. Briefly, http://www.apple.com loads and then the device is redirected to http://192.168.1.1. All of this is normal and I am used to this sort of experience when logging on to a wifi network on these devices.
The problem arises because the page at http://192.1681.1.1 is entirely blank. It's just a white page without any text or images. The overlay has an enabled back button (which takes me back to apple.com) and a blue Cancel button. Hitting the Cancel button closes the Log In overlay, removes the wifi signal strength icon, and restores the "E" icon.
On my MacBook Pro, logging in to the network first loads a blank http://192.168.1.1, but this page then opens up a a popup window at http://192.168.1.1:9988/html/ClientLoginPage.html where I supply my login credentials. I believe this is what's screwing up the iOS devices: the fancy overlay probably can't handle popup windows.
In prior (<3.0?) versions of iOS (ie, without the Log In overlay to automatically connect to a network), I believe this would've worked just fine. I would have used Settings to select the network, then would have opened Mobile Safari to load a page. This would've directed me to http://192.168.1.1, which would have prompted the popup login screen I mentioned above. And since Mobile Safari supports popups, I think this would have worked out and I could have logged in to the wifi network.
I've scoured Google and this website but can't find anyone else with these sorts of problems, but I doubt I'm alone. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
My iOS devices are finding the network just fine. In Settings > Network > Wi-Fi, when I click on the network name, the "E" icon beside the "AT&T" text in the top status bar turns into the familiar wifi signal strength. Then a "Log In" overlay sweeps up from the bottom of the screen as normal. Briefly, http://www.apple.com loads and then the device is redirected to http://192.168.1.1. All of this is normal and I am used to this sort of experience when logging on to a wifi network on these devices.
The problem arises because the page at http://192.1681.1.1 is entirely blank. It's just a white page without any text or images. The overlay has an enabled back button (which takes me back to apple.com) and a blue Cancel button. Hitting the Cancel button closes the Log In overlay, removes the wifi signal strength icon, and restores the "E" icon.
On my MacBook Pro, logging in to the network first loads a blank http://192.168.1.1, but this page then opens up a a popup window at http://192.168.1.1:9988/html/ClientLoginPage.html where I supply my login credentials. I believe this is what's screwing up the iOS devices: the fancy overlay probably can't handle popup windows.
In prior (<3.0?) versions of iOS (ie, without the Log In overlay to automatically connect to a network), I believe this would've worked just fine. I would have used Settings to select the network, then would have opened Mobile Safari to load a page. This would've directed me to http://192.168.1.1, which would have prompted the popup login screen I mentioned above. And since Mobile Safari supports popups, I think this would have worked out and I could have logged in to the wifi network.
I've scoured Google and this website but can't find anyone else with these sorts of problems, but I doubt I'm alone. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
