Hi folks,
I'm having some difficulty connecting to my university's wireless network using Safari. The way it works is that the network itself has no security code, and when opening a web-browser you are redirected to a login page where you put in username and password - in theory! The problem is that in Safari (and Google Chrome too), although the browser points to the correct address for the login page it doesn't load at all. It all works fine on Firefox. Even when I've logged on successfully using Firefox; Safari, Mail, Chrome and the official Twitter app won't work (to name four that I've noticed in limited testing), but the Dropbox app (and Firefox) does, for example. Why would this be the case? I'm probably way off the mark, here, but the only thing I can think of is if it is a 32-bit/64-bit thing? Would Firefox automatically open in 32 bit mode when needed? I'm probably completely wrong, but I can't think of any reason why I'm getting this behaviour.
A more general issue is that my Safari hangs on opening if there is no internet connection (the dock icon just continues to bounce and I have to force quit). Is this usual behaviour? Pretty poor if this is the case, as it should really have a work offline mode to access pages in the cache. Mail also refuses to Quit if there is no internet connection, as it just keeps refreshing the mailboxes (presumably waiting to see if it is all synced before quitting).
Not major problems - I can get by using Firefox, but it is a bit annoying, and I'm wondering if anybody has any answers?!
Many thanks!
I'm having some difficulty connecting to my university's wireless network using Safari. The way it works is that the network itself has no security code, and when opening a web-browser you are redirected to a login page where you put in username and password - in theory! The problem is that in Safari (and Google Chrome too), although the browser points to the correct address for the login page it doesn't load at all. It all works fine on Firefox. Even when I've logged on successfully using Firefox; Safari, Mail, Chrome and the official Twitter app won't work (to name four that I've noticed in limited testing), but the Dropbox app (and Firefox) does, for example. Why would this be the case? I'm probably way off the mark, here, but the only thing I can think of is if it is a 32-bit/64-bit thing? Would Firefox automatically open in 32 bit mode when needed? I'm probably completely wrong, but I can't think of any reason why I'm getting this behaviour.
A more general issue is that my Safari hangs on opening if there is no internet connection (the dock icon just continues to bounce and I have to force quit). Is this usual behaviour? Pretty poor if this is the case, as it should really have a work offline mode to access pages in the cache. Mail also refuses to Quit if there is no internet connection, as it just keeps refreshing the mailboxes (presumably waiting to see if it is all synced before quitting).
Not major problems - I can get by using Firefox, but it is a bit annoying, and I'm wondering if anybody has any answers?!
Many thanks!