Lorenzo Colitti <[email protected]> wrote:
> Over the years on this list we have seen many use-cases come
> through, I recall:
> - A school/library network that allows most of the Internet,
> but captures and redirects for certain networks / sites
> - A network allows all sorts of protocols - IMAP, HTTPS, for
> example - but not others - like HTTP, SMTP - and want to
> redirect / signal portal
> - A network that allows all Internet traffic, but just at a
> low QoS tier. No "captive" portal, but a portal is yet
> available for upgrading tier
> - Any network that allows a large walled garden, or even a
> *very large* garden, but otherwise has a captive portal
> - A network that will 99.99% of the time allow all traffic,
> but will (perhaps because of virus detection) interrupts
> sessions into captive state [technically, this is a "boolean"
> use-case, but one where polling would just be huge noise]
lc> I don't see why you would want to signal any of these to the UE,
lc> because they're not really actionable. Even if the UE distinguishes
Not actionable by an UE.
Might other things care?
Is it useful for diagnostics?
(Why doesn't webrtc work here?)
lc> between these categories, application developers are likely not going
lc> to want to do so and in the main are going to do whatever the UE
lc> decides to do. As Martin says, the human using the UE might be
lc> interested (e.g., in the upgrading case), but that's not hard to do by
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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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