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I just fixed a wifi connection issue by going to geocities .com. 😂 I'm out at a brewery. My laptop connects to the wifi fine, but nothing loads. I curl -vv stackoverflow and it complains about a self-signed certificate. Shoe in for a captive portal, and HSTS prevents the redirect from working.

11/6/25, 1:52 am0 reposts0 likes

Corey Ward

@coreyward.dev

11 June 2025

Ergo the solution: visiting an old website that doesn't have HSTS (or one that I haven't visited in the last year), which allows the browser to finish the handshake and follow the redirect to the portal sign-in page.