Bug 58979

Summary:	Don't try connecting / activating accounts while on a captive network portal
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Guillaume Desmottes <guillaume.desmottes>
Component:	mission-control	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Guillaume Desmottes 2013-01-03 12:48:04 UTC

From https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687240

"""
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 Simon McVittie 2013-09-03 17:31:25 UTC

I think the right way to do this would be to have a GNetworkMonitor not say we're "fully connected" until we can get out past the captive portal. ConnMan does that.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 20:12:42 UTC

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