Accessing Captive Portals on Linux - Getting online with WiFi at Starbucks

I&rsquo;ve noticed that the captive portal often does not show up with Linux when accessing public WiFi. A captive portal is a web page that pops up when you first access that public WiFi. The workaround is to access a site which just uses HTTP. In the background, operating systems such as Mac OS hit http://captive.apple.com . In my case, I just memorize the URL neverssl.com . To manually trigger…