Networking/Archive/Necko/CaptivePortal

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