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Bug 687240 - Don't try connecting / activating accounts while on a captive network portal
Don't try connecting / activating accounts while on a captive network portal
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
3.6.x
Other Linux
: High critical
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-10-31 00:53 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2013-01-03 12:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-10-31 00:53:03 UTC 
From bug #684953, I learned that NetworkManager has a very nice feature allowing you to detect network states where you're behind a captive portal and can't yet access the interwebs.

I doubt empathy uses this already, but if not, it should. It would rock not to have empathy spamming me about failed connection attempts while I haven't yet authenticated to the network.


See also:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=267bc993a710ec3923b6f243cb6a4b047fa49ec4
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2013-01-03 12:48:34 UTC 
Oh cool, I didn't know that NM supports this!

MC is the one doing connectivity check now so I forwarded this bug to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58979