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On 27-06-2011 16:02, Bryan Clark wrote:
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cite="mid:BANLkTinL=p=c_xZTcP9174FpxxysFSTqbw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hey -
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<div>I've been working on a Thunderbird add-on that tries to
detect <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal">captive
portals</a>. For Thunderbird (compared to Firefox) I think
this is a fairly straightforward problem to solve. I wanted to
talk a bit about my solution to the problem and what issues
still exist. I'm not sure if this is something that could be
merged into Thunderbird in the future but I think that's a
conversation that makes sense to have; it also makes sense to
have someone else write that code. ;-)</div>
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I think doing something like what Microsoft does to detect captive
portals in Windows 7 is the sanest approach to the problem. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/16/windows-7-network-awareness/">http://blog.superuser.com/2011/05/16/windows-7-network-awareness/</a>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562917">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562917</a><br>
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I don't think the privacy implications to this are anything beyond
those of displaying the Thunderbird start page.<br>
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- Sid<br>
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