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Many Wi-Fi hotspots these days have a "web login", especially free ones. You know, the ones that redirect any HTTP request to their login form. (The technical term for the technique is "captive portal".) Constantly logging into these manually is a pain, especially if you use the same ones all the time.

Is there a program out there that can automate such logins, i.e. save my username and password for a given hotspot, detect that the hotspot currently requires a login (i.e. captive portal detection, which Windows itself does) and actually perform the login without any action on my part?

Note that this capability exists for Android and, I believe, iOS.

Explanation / Answer

There seem to be a number of options on how to do this. Unfortunately, there's no real pure Windows application. They all seem to rely on scripts and the like.

As One of the SuperUser quetions pointed out, there is a scripting tool called WebInject that could be used to make a script that opens up the page and logs in for you. As I mentioned in the comments, there is a scripting tool called AutoHotKey that could also do this.

In terms of automating these, a good technique would be to use the Task Scheduler on Windows, and create an on-login event for your computer (I believe you would be looking for code 508, which is the event for successfully logging onto the local computer).

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