Browser authentication for wireless network

[Guest paraffinbrain]

Our work guest wireless is an open network, and when you connect you're supposed to authenticate by opening the browser, going to https://1.1.1.1/login.html and putting in a username/passwd.

The Vega will connect to the network fine, but won't go anywhere for me to login. A quick browse suggests this is a known android problem with invalid ssl certificates that should have been fixed in 2.2. Sounds like FF Fennec might work (but I can't get on a network to try this out right now) but anyone got this route working on a Vega?

I tried the stock browser, Opera Mobile and Dolphin HD (all four options of user agent) with no luck. The browsers just sit there trying to connect, when it should warn me about an invalid ssl certificate and offer the option to proceed.

Cheers

[Guest trevor432990]

In the Vega 'Location & Security Settings' there is a 'Use secure credentials' option which in my case is grayed out and I can't seem to find a way of turning it on but I'd guess that your problem is probably to do with something like that perhaps? I've no idea how to fix it but perhaps someone else can help.

[Guest paraffinbrain]

In the Vega 'Location & Security Settings' there is a 'Use secure credentials' option which in my case is grayed out and I can't seem to find a way of turning it on but I'd guess that your problem is probably to do with something like that perhaps? I've no idea how to fix it but perhaps someone else can help.

Thanks for the pointer - mine greyed out too but I think that's for if I have a certificate of my own that I need to present to validate the device's identity. I think this is more an issue about how it deals with an incoming certificate.

[Guest boffboff]

I used Fennec to connect to the office via Outlook Web Access yesterday (thankyou snow!!), which uses SSL certificates ("https://" at the start).

Same as in Firefox, you have to allow the exception (my server certificate isn't from a trusted source etc. etc.)

Best of luck.

[Guest paraffinbrain]

I used Fennec to connect to the office via Outlook Web Access yesterday (thankyou snow!!), which uses SSL certificates ("https://" at the start).

Same as in Firefox, you have to allow the exception (my server certificate isn't from a trusted source etc. etc.)

Best of luck.

Fennec did it in the end. Cheers for the advice.