Networking/Archive/Necko/CaptivePortal

An up to date page can be found at firefox-source-docs.

This page outlines the work that is currently done, and that needs to be done to achieve statisfactory Captive Portal Detection in Necko.

Assigned: Valentin Gosu

DONE:

• bug 752982 Captive portal pop up dialog is not automatically triggered on Wifi connect
• bug 878566 Design Captive Portal Login UI
  • https://github.com/vtsatskin/FX-Captive-Portals-Design

TODO:

• bug 1048131 Implement CaptivePortalService using nsICaptivePortalDetector
• bug 562917 implement captive portal detection

OTHER:

• bug 816866 for triggering captive portal detection in response to certificate errors.
• bug 728658 for triggering the captive portal UI for the HTTP 511 response code.
• bug 604975 about showing the captive portal login when the user starts (switches to) Firefox from the Windows captive portal system tray popup notification.
• bug 555551 about how captive portals make session restore suck.

• bug 989196 Do not show open Captive Portal automatically when OSX Captive Network Portal Assistant has been opened
• bug 989197 Add SSL error page when captive portal is detected
• bug 989195 Replace about:newtab and about:home with captive portal if detected
• bug 989194 Add captive portal status bar to all tabs when detected
• bug 989193 Open captive portal automatically in a new tab when detected
• bug 989192 Create portal detection events on network topology changes and user login

Prefs:

• pref("captivedetect.canonicalURL", "http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt");
• pref("captivedetect.canonicalContent", "success\n");

Tasks:

• Investigate captive portal API in windows
• Test captivedetect.js on desktop
• Figure out how to intercept HTTPS redirects
• Have rough UI for testing purposes