The prevalent use of captive portals is for user authentication, however captive portals are gaining increasing use on free open wireless networks where instead of authenticating users, they often display a message from the provider along with the terms of use.
The prevalent use of captive portals is for user authentication. This is however. Captive portals are gaining increasing use on free open wireless networks where instead of authenticating users, they often display a message from the provider along with the terms of use.