Open Bug 1322296 Opened 8 years ago Updated 4 months ago

[Captive Portal] Use a different canonical page with actual content for captive portal tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox53 --- affected
firefox54 --- affected

People

(Reporter: nhnt11, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [fxprivacy])

Currently, to open the captive portal login page, we open a tab with our success.txt canonical URL - this means that if the portal is one that redirects to the originally requested URL after login, it will redirect to a page that is blank except for the word "success" at the top left. As a workaround, currently we attempt to detect this and close the tab so the user doesn't see it. Automatically closing tabs can be surprising and isn't great UX. We should instead host a page with actual information, and use this to open portal tabs. The page can say something like, "If you are seeing this page, you can now use the internet!". To be clear, this page is not a replacement for success.txt. We should keep using that one for the detection process.
Severity: normal → S3
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