I suddenly am interrupted every five minutes by a popup that says on the window frame "join (name of wifi network here)".
In the window is the message
"<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>"
What is wrong with my wifi network that I get this?
How can I make it go away?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 512 Gb SSD, 16 Gb RAM,
Go into [Hard Drive] -> System -> Library -> CoreServices
Find "Captive Network Assistant" and rename it to "XCaptive Network Assistant".
Voila! No longer a problem.
This is at least a temporary fix to resolve the issue until Apple fixes the problem at their end (who knows how long that is going to take).
In terms of overall impact, it will only affect people on corporate networks or airports that need to input corporate usernames/passwords. If you're just connecting to your wireless at home it won't have any impact.
This is one of the reasons I suggest also not "deleting" the file and instead "renaming" it to get it out of the way, temporarily whilst Apple fix the issue so you can then rename it again after they fix what they need to.
At least it won't get in your way every five minutes whilst trying to surf the net.
Anyway, hopefully that helps everyone.
Regards,
Wyrmfire
Just tried switching to wifi on my iMac and this time I got no popup.
The page at http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html has been rewritten and now displays simply the word 'Success'.
It was a problem at Apple's end, and nothing to do with any virus or your computer.
is there a way of getting it to reconnect automatically once I've done the above? As Ive tried to switch it back and it doesn't work.
Your help would be appreciated.
I renamed the file back to its original name and switched WiFi networks a few times and have yet to see the pop-up again in the last few mins either! Maybe there's been a quiet fix to this issue.
This worked for me. Thanks. Hope Apple can get to this, maybe sometime this year...
macOS Sierra 10.12.6 / MBP Retina, 15" mid-2015
Constant popup "join Wifi-network"
