Feature: WiFi Portal Environments

[quozl]

Some locations have a WiFi portal that when accessed using macOS, Windows, Android, or iOS open a browser window and visit a supplied web page for authentication or acceptance of terms and conditions.

Sugar does not provide this feature yet.

[chimosky]

I don't think this issue is from sugar as I remember some years back I was able to view wifi portal environments on my XO, I don't have any wifi I could use to test this at the moment though.

[srevinsaju]

@chimosky afaik, what @quozl might have mentioned is a sign-in to connect to WiFi mode of connection. There are many free public wifi's which require us to sign in before connection. Android phones show a WebBrowserIntent as a notification and ask the user to sign into the Browser to complete connecting to internet. Maybe sugar has not implemented the sign-in to connect method of WiFi,

I hope I did not misinterpret what @quozl meant. This is what I understood

[quozl]

Agreed, it's more than just using Browse to interact with the portal. Other operating systems launch a minibrowser in response. We use WebKit for Help in Sugar, so we know we can do that kind of thing, we just need to request and handle the event.

[chimosky]

I now understand what you meant as earlier I thought you meant the interaction with the portal using Browse.