whump.com | More Like This WebLog » annoyances http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis Where is their vote? Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:55:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Annoyances: “Free” WiFi http://www.whump.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whump.com%2FmoreLikeThis%2F2008%2F08%2F12%2Fannoyances-free-wifi%2F&seed_title=Annoyances%3A+%26%238220%3BFree%26%238221%3B+WiFi http://www.whump.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whump.com%2FmoreLikeThis%2F2008%2F08%2F12%2Fannoyances-free-wifi%2F&seed_title=Annoyances%3A+%26%238220%3BFree%26%238221%3B+WiFi#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:00:55 +0000 Bill Humphries http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/?p=4192 The Denver Airport advertises “free” WiFi. Of course, it is not free. In this case, every HTTP request is intercepted by a router that replaces the response with a frameset which then loads the requested page surrounded by ads sold by the WiFi provider.

This messes any application that uses an embedded browser to deliver UI, like the Second Life Viewer, for instance.

Second Life.jpg

It appears to be easily circumvented. I turned off JavaScript in Firefox and was able to view the BBC News front page without incident.

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