Geolocation popup inducing bug?
Posted: 2019-09-16, 20:26
Moonchild said in "Pale Moon, Geolocation and You" that "A webpage can request (through JavaScript) that the browser finds its geographical location."
How exactly is that done? Is there an HTML command or simply named script functions built into the browser that are standard?
Recently, McDonalds.com on the East coast has changed their page served upon a wifi connection; the former button to "Get Connected" is gone, and a manual attempt to open secure-login.attwifi.com results in a time out (or a "blocked" message in some locations, apparently a local programming error).
However the McDonalds.com site does ask for location, triggering the "Would you like to share.." popup.
By accident, I discovered that the "Learn More" link in the pop-up is to secure-login.att..., and that page does immediately provide (at least to laptops with no geo hardware) the "Get Connected" button. I don't remember anything on the page about geo-location and why they want it. which is pretty obvious if you are inside their shop.
With no geo hardware (and realizing the stupidity of believing the location to which that database thinks some dynamic IP addresses are assigned), I simply haven't gotten around to turning off that popup. In which case I would never get connected at McDonalds.
Are the Wayport/ATTWiFi people trying to insist that you can't connect if you have geo-hardware and won't give them the data? Or did they assume that the location-request couldn't be blocked in a browser and so it was just a simple way to always link to secure-login.attwifi...?
[PM for Linux 28.3.1 32bit]
How exactly is that done? Is there an HTML command or simply named script functions built into the browser that are standard?
Recently, McDonalds.com on the East coast has changed their page served upon a wifi connection; the former button to "Get Connected" is gone, and a manual attempt to open secure-login.attwifi.com results in a time out (or a "blocked" message in some locations, apparently a local programming error).
However the McDonalds.com site does ask for location, triggering the "Would you like to share.." popup.
By accident, I discovered that the "Learn More" link in the pop-up is to secure-login.att..., and that page does immediately provide (at least to laptops with no geo hardware) the "Get Connected" button. I don't remember anything on the page about geo-location and why they want it. which is pretty obvious if you are inside their shop.
With no geo hardware (and realizing the stupidity of believing the location to which that database thinks some dynamic IP addresses are assigned), I simply haven't gotten around to turning off that popup. In which case I would never get connected at McDonalds.
Are the Wayport/ATTWiFi people trying to insist that you can't connect if you have geo-hardware and won't give them the data? Or did they assume that the location-request couldn't be blocked in a browser and so it was just a simple way to always link to secure-login.attwifi...?
[PM for Linux 28.3.1 32bit]