Just how limited is the Captive Network Assistant?
Wondering how limited the Captive Network Assistant is.
We have a captive portal guest network that instructs guest to login by submitting an e-mail address. The captive portal page also allows sponsored users to login using a sponsored username & password. It also instructs University members to launch CloudPath's XpressConnect application to configure their computer to join the non-restricted campus network.
I'm running into an issue where Mac OS X 10.8.x computers aren't able to launch the XpressConnect Java applet, nor are they able to download the network profile in order to configure their computer, from the Captive Network Assistant. Launching Safari (or any other full fledge web browser) allows them to do both.
Curious if anyone can tell me if this limited functionality is by design, or if there's some other issue here.
Thanks,
--Raf
OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)