GNOME captive portal helper (was Re: F23 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver)

[Reindl Harald]

Am 13.06.2015 um 21:01 schrieb Michael Catanzaro:
>> There is a good reason we started hotspot-nocache.fedoraproject.org.
>
> Hm... the captive portal helper loads www.gnome.org but it only runs
> after NetworkManager has decided there is a captive portal. We can make
> this URL configurable at build time if there's really a problem, but
> I'm not sure there is, since it's not used for NetworkManager's
> connectivity check (which is what triggers us to start the captive
> portal helper, and what decides that we have full Internet access and
> closes it). For the connectivity check, NetworkManager uses
> https://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt defined in
> /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf. So... I guess
> that is not good, and we should switch that to use hotspot
> -nocache.fedoraproject.org instead?

surely

you moust not use cached results for on-demand connectivity checks

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