[gopher] free gopher surfing at Telenet; maybe also others?

[Jacob Dahl Pind]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Walter Vermeir wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Here in Belgium there are two major Telecom company?s. On of them is Telenet. Customers who have internet service form them
> have also access to many wifihotspots.
> 
> That are unprotected networks. But when you request a website you are redirected to a page where you need to login so you
> can browse the web.
> 
> But I have noticed if you do not login you can not browse the www, but gopher, that works! 
> 
> Maybe there are also other wifi service providers who have not bothered to block gopher in your country ?
>

Yes 3 here in denmark had a bit of the same going, they had a captive 
portal system for their 3g net, so if you didnt have any credits left it 
would redirect you to their site where you could fill it up with a credtit 
card, but only port 80 access, ssh to your own server worked fine for free 
net, later on they caught up a bit made it so if would drop the tcp 
connection after some 400kb or so, but you could easly browser gopherspace 
still.

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