iPad on Koru Club and Cafenet wifi

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RodDrury

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#61192 11-May-2010 20:20

I've tried to connect my iPad to both Koru Club and CafeNet wifi. Both these sites allow you to connect but you need to logon through the browser. The iPad wifi connection manager seems to open the logon pages up correctly but you can't submit them. The submit (On CafeNet it is the logon button I think) button doesn't seem to do anything.

Has anyone seen an iPad wifi authentication guide I can send to CafeNet and Air New Zealand to show them how to configure their authentication?

Thanks

Rod

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oldmaknz

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#329124 11-May-2010 20:34

May be unrelated but I know the iPad WiFi is sometimes incompatible. A person I follow on Twitter is selling his as it's not compatible with Uni WiFi.

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#329125 11-May-2010 20:40

RodDrury: I've tried to connect my iPad to both Koru Club and CafeNet wifi. Both these sites allow you to connect but you need to logon through the browser. The iPad wifi connection manager seems to open the logon pages up correctly but you can't submit them. The submit (On CafeNet it is the logon button I think) button doesn't seem to do anything.

Has anyone seen an iPad wifi authentication guide I can send to CafeNet and Air New Zealand to show them how to configure their authentication?

Make sure you click the button in the webpage itself, rather than choosing submit from the keyboard - it seems to be a Safari bug from what I've read.

The Air New Zealand forum at FlyerTalk had someone posting about it recently - it does seem to work if you do this.

maknz: May be unrelated but I know the iPad WiFi is sometimes incompatible. A person I follow on Twitter is selling his as it's not compatible with Uni

I'd assume that's most likely related to the DHCP bug in the iPad rather than WiFi itself?

RodDrury

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#329129 11-May-2010 20:45

Thanks for the response. Pretty sure I tried pushing the button on the page, but will check again.

On CafeNet I also tried the same.

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#329141 11-May-2010 21:13

It seems wierd that it fails on the iPad considering that I have no problems connecting to Cafenet on my iPhone using the submit button on their logon page as normal. As I understand it the software is essentially the same on the two devices.

tonyc

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#329644 13-May-2010 09:17

I used my Ipad at the domestic Koru Lounge in Auckland a couple of weeks back no problems.

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#331169 18-May-2010 08:08

Had no issues with iPad wifi in Koru Wellington. Always make sure you click the button on the page rather than the keyboard

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RodDrury

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#331515 18-May-2010 18:23

Crap. Back in the Wellington Lounge and same problem.

When I connect I get the Cisco Web Authentication screen, I put in username and password and hit Submit. Then it just hangs.

The lovely folks at Air New Zealand even made contact and ran a test on their iPad, which worked as well. I have all the same settings as them.

Could it be an app I've loaded?

I didn't manage to get onto CityLink either with the same issue, so something seems weird on my machine or I'm just a thickie.

Any further thoughts?

Thanks

Rod

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RodDrury

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#331826 19-May-2010 12:18

Hooray, found the problem ....

On 18/05/2010, at 10:13 PM, Rod Drury wrote:

Aha! I may have found it ...

Same problem ....

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/95552?page=1#entry-369192

Answer here

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2393270&tstart=0

If you're having problems submitting a username and password to a form-based authentication site after connecting to a wireless network on your iPad:

Turn off Safari AutoFill.

Thanks again to AirNZ for helping me out!

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#331828 19-May-2010 12:24

I remember there used to be issues with certain CafeNet locations not working with iPhone last year...it was something to do with the way their routers were configured. Could be a similar issue with iPads? Though I would think if they've addressed the iPhone issue (read: not sure they have) then the iPads would work since it's the same OS

tonyc

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#331833 19-May-2010 12:39

Sort of on the same subject
I had problems with my ipad logging on at home, worked everywhere else, Hotel on Honolulu (bought in in Honolulu) lounge at Honolulu airport, Koru Auckland, work, parents house but not at home , so I did a reset on the wireless router worked straight away, strange thing was my I phone would connect up no problems.