How is public WiFi meant to work?

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	How is public WiFi meant to work?
Date	2019-04-20 12:50 +1000
Message-ID	<ghvfn4FochgU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)

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In the days of yore, one chose a public WiFi node, and then when one 
entered a URL into a browser, the WiFi node served up a page that 
redirected one to a terms-acceptance page. One clicked on that. Job done.

These days, the URL one enters is likely to be for the https protocol. 
The WiFi node cannot redirect that, and nor can it pretend to be the 
target page.

So, in today's world, just how is this meant to work?

I seem to have no end of trouble with it, at times resorting to entering 
the URL of a page of my own that is not https based.

Sylvia.

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How is public WiFi meant to work? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-04-20 12:50 +1000
  Re: How is public WiFi meant to work? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-20 05:02 +0000
    Re: How is public WiFi meant to work? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-04-20 03:11 -0300
    Re: How is public WiFi meant to work? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-04-20 16:54 +1000
  Re: How is public WiFi meant to work? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2019-04-20 10:38 +0300
  Re: How is public WiFi meant to work? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-20 09:02 +0000
    Re: How is public WiFi meant to work? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-20 14:44 +0000
      Re: How is public WiFi meant to work? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-21 19:56 -0400
  Re: How is public WiFi meant to work? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-21 00:12 +0000

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