Not getting login page when I connect to public wifi

I'm here at a hospital with free wifi. However, when you first connect, it redirects you to a webpage which describes their usage policy and a form for you to submit your email address.

It works fine with my iPhone and iPad, but, with my Windows 8.1 Enterprise laptop, when I choose to connect to that wifi network, I am never redirected to this webpage. Windows only tells me that the connection is "Limited".

How do I fix this?

July 10th, 2014 10:22pm

Jemenake

You may have something blocking the redirection on your laptop.  Are you using private browsing?  Do you have an add on blocking scripting, etc.  Have you tried a different browser?

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July 11th, 2014 12:10am

Hi,

Did you resolve your issue? Could you connect other WIFI using your Windows 8.1 laptop?

If no, please troubleshoot your issue as below article:

Windows 8.1 Wifi showing "limited" or "No Internet Access"

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dennis_schnell/archive/2013/08/31/windows-8-1-wifi-showing-quot-limitied-quot-or-quot-no-internet-access-quot.aspx

July 16th, 2014 3:11am

So, I solved my problem. I did it by setting Internet Explorer as the default HTTP and HTTPS handler. Then, when I connected to the wifi, I was prompted with the HTML-based login/eula screen. Interestingly, after that, I set the default HTTP/HTTPS app back to be Chrome, and then *Chrome* was able to handle the logins. So, I think something got "disconnected" somewhere, and messing with the default app for HTTP/HTTPS was able to fix it.
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July 24th, 2014 5:59pm

I had the same problem, accessing a guest wifi network that automatically loads the login webpage.

Tracked it down to app permissions in the end, after installing Firefox it had become default for html, but not default for http/https. After I reverted everything back to IE was able to access the wifi network login portal.

May 6th, 2015 6:26pm

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