{"id":219,"date":"2007-05-15T05:19:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T05:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/GettingLoggedIntoHotelInternetWithVistaAmpIE7.aspx"},"modified":"2007-05-15T05:19:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T05:19:29","slug":"getting-logged-into-hotel-internet-with-vista-ie-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/getting-logged-into-hotel-internet-with-vista-ie-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting logged into Hotel Internet with Vista &#038; IE 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Paula and I were trying to get logged into Courtyard&#8217;s Internet connection on Saturday we couldn&#8217;t get connected, the browser just spun it&#8217;s wheels then gave us a &#8220;page cannot be displayed&#8221; message.&nbsp; The behavior was the same on both my laptop and Paula&#8217;s.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The typical experience signing onto a commercial network is turn on your computer,&nbsp;open a web browser, request a page and you are magically redirected to a sign-in\/sign-up page.&nbsp; The redirect works in some cases (the Westin most recently) and not in others (Marriott).&nbsp; For some reason some implementations work with Vista and some don&#8217;t.&nbsp; I asked the hotel tech support to log me on from their end but then played with Paula&#8217;s computer to try to get hers logged in.<\/p>\n<p>The solution ended up being fairly simple, I turned off protected mode in IE, logged into the hotel Internet, then turned protected mode back on again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/GettingloggedintoHotelInternetwithVistaI_1397D\/image01.png\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/GettingloggedintoHotelInternetwithVistaI_1397D\/image0.png\" width=\"240\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I suppose if you&#8217;re stuck in a hotel right now unable to log onto the hotel network you can&#8217;t read this.&nbsp; Ah, the irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Paula and I were trying to get logged into Courtyard&#8217;s Internet connection on Saturday we couldn&#8217;t get connected, the browser just spun it&#8217;s wheels then gave us a &#8220;page cannot be displayed&#8221; message.&nbsp; The behavior was the same on both my laptop and Paula&#8217;s.&nbsp; The typical experience signing onto a commercial network is turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,19],"tags":[94,127],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technet","category-idletravel","tag-internet","tag-idletravel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}