I frequently check Waffles.fm, one of my favorite sites, but it is rather annoying with PIE. I can access the site, but I get 2 different security warnings.
The certificate was issued by a company you have not chosen to truse.
The page contains both secure and nonsecure items.
Is there a way to keep these notifications from popping up each time?
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Here's the problem.
When I try to connect to my University's network , the my Galaxy S is able to connect JUST fine. However, when I open a browser it says the incoming certificate is not secure and then I have NO INTERNET on any page. It tries to redirect me to the login page for the network but fails to do so with a "communications error" and subsequent no internet access of any sort.
What the network is supposed to do is redirect me to the login page so that I can register the device to the network and login using my university account. My phone can't do that apparently and just sits connected to the network with NO INTERNET connectivity. How can I fix the problem?
This is the university network and the instructions how to get on it for Android devices:
http://www.colorado.edu/its/docs/wir...dwireless.html
I connect to it just fine but am UNABLE to get to that device registration/login page.
This is NOT just for my university. ANY public network which requires me to accept an "agreement" before it lets me have internet access, my phone KILLS ITSELF and CANNOT pull up the agreement page but instead tells me there is no internet. I'm SURE its a software problem or something with settings but can't figure out just what it is. Help?
Just about the only networks I can connect to on Wi-Fi are home networks.
You could see if your university has the (presumably) self-signed root certificate for their trust chain for their captive portal and install it on your Android device. That would make the browser warning go away.
You could also check if there is a "show security warnings" option in your browser and disable it to skip over the certificate entirely.
Or perhaps Samsung did something funky to the browser to explicitly forbid access to self-signed sites? I'm not too sure there, I only have HTC devices to test with.
Well the thing is I tried several browsers.
1. The default one that comes with Android
2. Opera mini
3. DolphinHD
All same thing. I'm now going to test with a beta build of Firefox for android (fennero was it called I forget) but its SUCH a stupid thing to not work. Every other device WORKS. Blackberries, Iphones, tablets, laptops....everything.
EDIT: The EXACT error I get is:
"There is a problem with the security certificate for this site. This certificate is not from a trusted authority." I get this AS it attempts to load the redirect login page (both university and at work now). Same issue. It's browser/certificate related. And its ANNOYING as hell.
EDIT 2: Found the problem. It's that stupid certificate.
"This is a result of your corporation using an in house Certificate Authority to provide SSL encryption on your mail server and clients.
Basically....the computer that issued the certificate isn't trusted by the android phone. I'm new to android so I'm not sure if you can add a trusted CA (I haven't seen any options for it).
I don't know about future updates like the above poster mentioned.
Most companies will purchase a certificate from one of the major Certificate Authorities on the internet, which are pre-programed into most operating systems to be trusted. Internal CA's are trusted by the domain environment at your work, but not by anyone else. External (Internet) CA's are trusted by everyone.
if you want an example, open up IE (gross I know) and go to your options. Click the content tab, then there should be a button label certificates. inside the certificates window select Trusted Root Certification Authorities.
That is a list of all the builtin trusted CA's provided by Microsoft and the companies that govern the internet. "
I STILL have no idea how to fix it and to make the phone accept the certificate though.
EDIT 3: Fennec (Mozilla Firefox for Android beta) managed to pull up the login page for my work network. Not sure if it will work for the university yet.
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Well the thing is I tried several browsers.
1. The default one that comes with Android
2. Opera mini
3. DolphinHD
All same thing. I'm now going to test with a beta build of Firefox for android (fennero was it called I forget) but its SUCH a stupid thing to not work. Every other device WORKS. Blackberries, Iphones, tablets, laptops....everything.
EDIT: The EXACT error I get is:
"There is a problem with the security certificate for this site. This certificate is not from a trusted authority." I get this AS it attempts to load the redirect login page (both university and at work now). Same issue. It's browser/certificate related. And its ANNOYING as hell.
EDIT 2: Found the problem. It's that stupid certificate.
"This is a result of your corporation using an in house Certificate Authority to provide SSL encryption on your mail server and clients.
Basically....the computer that issued the certificate isn't trusted by the android phone. I'm new to android so I'm not sure if you can add a trusted CA (I haven't seen any options for it).
I don't know about future updates like the above poster mentioned.
Most companies will purchase a certificate from one of the major Certificate Authorities on the internet, which are pre-programed into most operating systems to be trusted. Internal CA's are trusted by the domain environment at your work, but not by anyone else. External (Internet) CA's are trusted by everyone.
if you want an example, open up IE (gross I know) and go to your options. Click the content tab, then there should be a button label certificates. inside the certificates window select Trusted Root Certification Authorities.
That is a list of all the builtin trusted CA's provided by Microsoft and the companies that govern the internet. "
I STILL have no idea how to fix it and to make the phone accept the certificate though.
EDIT 3: Fennec (Mozilla Firefox for Android beta) managed to pull up the login page for my work network. Not sure if it will work for the university yet.
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Hate to revive a thread... but I'm having this EXACT problem trying to use Wifi at McDonald's in Spain.
Has anybody came up with ANY solution to this problem?
i have same problem on ma samsung galaxy s can`t connect to wi fi at mcdonalds any mecdonalds... it connects i get an ip but i can`t login it says i got no internet connection
Hate to bring up this thread, but i am having the same issue with 2 android 4.0 devices on my work network. Does anyone know the solution to this issue?
any way to do this , its driving my nuts tapping in a password every 15 min . thanks
Might I suggest you talk to the person who implemented the policy. I say that because, being the Manager of Information Systems, if you deliberately circumvented one of my policies I'll show you where, in your employment agreement, you have just committed an offense that might result in your termination...
Just a thought...
This is MY device
I fully understand WHY security policy is needed, I completely disagree with HOW it is implemented. If a PIN was required to read/send e-mail, I would understand and cooperate, but locking the whole device?? my phone does lots of other stuff other than reading e-mail you know. Why do I need to type a password to make calls? To play games?
There are other ways. Ask for PIN when opening the e-mail app or when accessing the file where e-mails are stored for example.
hi
i have posted a couple of replies about this. do a search by my user name and hopefully you will find it. let me know if you cant and i will try to post link.
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to get around the new security requirements by our company regarding smartphone usage.
Previously, if we wanted to use exchange on our devices, I had three possibilities:
1. Add the exchange account to the default email client, accept all the security setting being pushed with the device administrator functionality
2. Add the exchange account to the default email client, and get around the security using Xposed
3. Add the exchange account to the Nine, and let it handle the security setting.
On my Nex5 however the second option vanished with Android 5. So I was using Nine for a while now without any problems.
Now the company is making new security requirements.
The problem is that they want us to install this app from vodafone:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobileiron.vodafone.MIClient
to handle all device security settings and device registration.
I don't mind having a device administrator managed by the company on the phone, I do however dislike using a PIN to unlock my device.
Anyone having any experience getting around this?
Not sure if I’m on-topic here or not, but here goes... I am responsible for the setup/configuration of WiFi routers in various restaurants and venues. We are simply using the built-in splash page functionality of the router to, upon connection, present a simple marketing message and daily special offer via an extremely simple, static external HTML page, rather than the login page that many venues present (airports, coffee shops, McDonalds, etc.).
After connecting to our SSID with a PC or mobile device, users are presented with a customized splash page where our venue’s latest “offer of the day” banner ad is presented, which links via a standard hyperlink out to a PDF coupon for them to redeem said offer. There are also a couple of other simple items on the page, such as a menu with links to other offers, and an embedded Google Map to the venue in question.
All seems to be OK on PCs and iPad/iPhone devices. However, we are running into a problem on Android devices – specifically, Android devices using newer/more recent versions of the Android OS.
The problem is that Google has made a change to newer versions of Android so that WiFi connection login/splash/confirmation pages no longer come up in the default Web browser of the phone/tablet in question. Instead, they seem to come up in some kind of built-in notification window simply titled “Sign-in to network” – it does not seem to be a full-blown, feature-compliant browser, but rather a panel of sorts built into Android. And when our basic, mainly static HTML page loads within this alert window, none of the standard HTML features (such as hyperlinks) seem to work. A window appears with the title “Sign-in to network”, and our splash page appears on within it, but the standard HTML hyperlink from our special offer graphic (to a PDF file) does not work. Clicking it has no effect. Our menu underneath that does not seem to open (it’s automatically collapsed on mobile devices), and none of the links within it work properly, and our embedded Google Map does not appear at all. It’s as if this alert window or whatever we call it does not support the basic features of HTML pages in any way.
There appears to be no way for me to programmatically force the Android client to “escape” from this proprietary panel and open up a page in their default browser. I’ve tried placing various forms of client and server side “push/redirect” code on the page in an effort to escape from this alert window and cue the default browser to open, with no luck. No matter what I do, it seems that they Android phones always load the splash page within a “sign-in to network” notification page rather than a browser, and that this notification panel is not fully functional for even basic HTML features such as <a> hyperlinks, javascript, or embedded items.
It’s possible that Android’s proprietary “sign-in to network” panel is apparently seeking some sort of acknowledgement of a successful "login" in order to proceed with any subsequent browsing. But if so, I don’t know what constitutes “acknowledgement”. Perhaps there some way to force a hidden form submission or link click programmatically to force the Android device to accept/acknowledge the connection just as if the user had logged in normally, so that we can then proceed to subsequent Web browsing?
Has anyone experienced this problem, or have any ideas as to whether there’s a work-around or coding-based solution to this difficulty?
Thanks very much for your help in advance.
UPDATE: I've been in touch with the Google developers of the sign-in panel... they indicated that "captive portal sign-in pages are displayed in an Android WebView, which uses much of the same code as the Chrome browser. The sign-in app is very simple, you can see all of its source code here.
One second after each navigation (including the initial page load), the app probes to see if the user has successfully signed into the network. This probe is done by fetching a URL that should give back a 204 response."
Based on this, I am making the assumption that until captive portal sign-in app probes to see if the user is successfully signed in, all other navigation and many other features on the page are disabled, and that the full functionality of the WebView panel is restored after a successful sign-in to the network. But if so how can I successfully "signal" to the sign-in app that the user is, in fact, signed in (or rather, that no sign is in necessary or desired)? Is there something programmatically that I can do in the page code to ensure this, so that the viewer can then proceed to normal Web navigation within the panel, and so forth?
Any insight into how this works from anyone here would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
After adding a second account to my phone, Maps asks me an authorization request for the second account.
I do not want to allow this permission/access, for many reasons, including legal issues. Allowing Maps to access this account may be a legal issue.
In the past, this request was asked once after every reboot, and this was already annoying me. Since a few days, this request comes in half an hour after each cancel.
This request takes place in my notification bar, and I MUST cancel it rapidly to see my other notifications. Not being legally able to accept it, and not being technically able to permanently refuse is now a major annoyance in my life.
The phone is not rooted, so I can"t install/use NotifCancel . I did not find anything in Maps, or Account managers.
Is Tasker able to cancel this automatically for me ?
Other tool ? other manip ?
Thread on Google Maps forum: https://support.google.com/maps/thread/218309933?hl=fr&sjid=4292217938257908987-EU
Notification Blocker & Cleaner - Apps on Google Play
Keep the notification bar neat and clean
play.google.com
did not help. It works fine for other notif, not Maps-system.