How are airlines public WiFi’s charging you for WiFi packages?
Was on board a flight recently and they had onboard WiFi. But, you have to pay. However if you click on the free checkbox, you get social apps internet connectivity for free.
I wanna know how they are implementing this. I logged on from my laptop, typed in my browser Google.com and got 500 error.
I loaded up windows terminal and done test-netconnection 443 google.com and it worked.
This is telling me network to network there is connectivity to that port. So I am thinking on the DNS layer, the router scans the request against a whitelist and has the URLs for WhatsApp, Snapchat etc on the allow list. Or they are using strict origin requests.
Want to hear your thoughts on this and how you think it’s being implemented.
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