I know this is a problem for the hotspot system redirecting a https site to the login page.
There are other hotspot systems (routers) that work with out any issues. What I noticed with them is instead of trying to redirect the https requests, its pops up a second non-https window with the hotspot login page. In the response stream it must embed code telling the browser tot open a second windows with the login pages as the url
Is this something that can changed in RouterOS? ASAP
This is such great equipment and routerOS is awesome. Adding this would really help us trying to operate hotspot systems with these routers
Chances are it’s not something “special” they are doing as much as it is relying on the newer operating systems/mobile devices ability to detect that there is a login page and that people need to sign into the network. Try using an older OS, and I bet you will run into the same problem.
The limiting factor is HTTPS and how the browsers/operating systems work. Not what the Hotspot is able to serve.
I recently went to a hotel with my laptop running windows 7, and IE defaults to https:\www.facebook.com and when i connected to their wifi, the first page errored as it always had, but a second tab opened with the login page.
When I use the same laptop with my mikrotik hotspot, it just errors. So i would suggest they are doing something to the response stream to tell the browser to open a new window.
