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Old May 6th, 2008, 08:11 AM
Mike S.
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Default Nokia browser and Panera Bread hotspots


In article <Xns9A95BF26F9A7Cnoonehomecom@208.49.80.253>,
Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>retsuhcs@xinap.moc (Mike S.) wrote in news:fvn4qd$31h$1
>@reader2.panix.com:
>
>>
>>
>> The built-in browser in my E51 is surprisingly compatible; even

>accessing
>> corporate email web pages and places that other browsers (even earlier
>> version of Opera on my PC) have choked on.
>>
>> Surprisingly, I can't get past the welcome page at the free WiFi

>hotspots
>> at Panera Bread restaurants here in the US. Lots of folks in the same
>> stores are using laptops to browse the web, so it must work for them.
>>
>> You are presented with a welcome page in which you must check a box
>> indicating acceptance of terms (it is pre-checked in the default

>anyway)
>> and click on "GO ONLINE". When I do so, it merely redraws the page.
>> (I try UNchecking the acceptance checkbox ... that gets me a popup page
>> reminding me that I must accept the terms ... so that part of the page
>> logic does seem to work).
>>
>> All the browser options are at default; which includes SSL, cookies,
>> Javascript, etc. Any ideas (shorting of buying Opera for Symbian OS)?
>>
>>

>
>Javascript and cookies at our Panera Bread and Atlanta Bread. Works on
>my N800 Linux tablet's browser very well....the reason I do NOT go to
>Starbucks across the parking lot....(c;


Well, Opera ain't the answer easier. Just read a thread on a Nokia help
board in which an N95 owner said the Panera start page locks up Opera
requiring battery removal to restart the phone.


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