Two things. First, your observation confirms what I have seen at a few places that macOS does not do captive portal checks on the wired (just on the wireless). There is unfortunately not so much you can do.
Then for google.com and yahoo.com you hit the
HSTS problem that I wrote a blog around a few years ago. Also, that is not something that helps or solves the issue.
While I have not really investigated, I read some rumors that indicate that some vendors started to
implement RFC-7710, that adds the captive portal URL in the DHCP messages. This was one of the suggestions in my blog, but I never tried it after. You may try and see if that helps...
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Herman Robers
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 12, 2021 11:50 PM
From: Daniel Kweh
Subject: Guest self-registration for macbook
Hi Herman
I just tried typing captive.apple.com and it works fine for macbook. I can see it immediately redirect to CPPM self registration page. but if i key in any other URL like www.google.com or www.yahoo.com it does not redirect.
Would you be able to advise? I have log a case with HPE support and for weeks, they are still asking for information.
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Daniel Kweh
Original Message:
Sent: Dec 06, 2021 08:52 AM
From: Herman Robers
Subject: Guest self-registration for macbook
If, from the wired when you should be automatically redirected, can you try to open your browser to http://captive.apple.com/
Are you redirected to the captive portal at that point?
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Herman Robers
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 06, 2021 08:18 AM
From: Daniel Kweh
Subject: Guest self-registration for macbook
Thanks for your response. The issue is on wired to the captive portal. On WIFI, it works fine.
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Daniel Kweh
Original Message:
Sent: Dec 06, 2021 06:45 AM
From: Dustin Burns
Subject: Guest self-registration for macbook
Also, have you seen this?
https://poweruser.blog/macos-catalina-wifi-issue-captive-portal-broken-45610cc016b5
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Original Message:
Sent: Dec 06, 2021 02:54 AM
From: Daniel Kweh
Subject: Guest self-registration for macbook
Hi
anyone has this issue with macbook connecting to network on wired but does not automatically open browser and re-direct to CPPM Self-registration guest page? Note: The guest self registration works fine on BYOD windows 10.
BYOD Macbook, connect to wired it does not work, but if I manually key in the full self register URL it works fine as I can register an account. another note is that the BYOD macbook works fine on WIFI Guest network. When connect to WIFI Guest, it will immediately popup browser and to self register URL.
Appreciate any advise on this.
Thanks
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Daniel Kweh
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