Browser Timeout: "This Screen will be closed."
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@Gorzog oh wow that's very useful! Thanks! I didn't realize the timeout was so precisely at 20 minutes. This is for 45.55.142.122? It would be nice if there was some networking-level thing that could be done to stretch it out longer.
When I sleep my Switch while in the browser, I am able to get a single page to last for multiple days, but maybe that is due to the total time not yet exceeding 20 minutes. I'll need to get some specific data too.
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I managed to get it to stay on the 'This screen will now be closed' thing for a day in sleep mode.
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@Gorzog oh wow that's very useful! Thanks! I didn't realize the timeout was so precisely at 20 minutes. This is for 45.55.142.122? It would be nice if there was some networking-level thing that could be done to stretch it out longer.
When I sleep my Switch while in the browser, I am able to get a single page to last for multiple days, but maybe that is due to the total time not yet exceeding 20 minutes. I'll need to get some specific data too.
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so i think the sleep process just interrupts the count down , would be worth trying the timed period with a break in sleep mode to determine if the countdown continues where it left off...
so like 10 mins browsing then go to sleep then wake it up and continue the count to see if its the same.
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so i think the sleep process just interrupts the count down , would be worth trying the timed period with a break in sleep mode to determine if the countdown continues where it left off...
so like 10 mins browsing then go to sleep then wake it up and continue the count to see if its the same.
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I can confirm exactly 20 min on v14.0.0 as well (waking the Switch from idle each time).
I also monitored the network requests my Switch made, and here are the log files. I have the receipts!
http log: http_timeout_log.txt
dns requests: dns_timeout_log.txtHere you can see the full 20 minute "session". Every ~1 minute a GET request is made with the user agent "NX NIFM/00".
In between those, every ~3 seconds (!!) a HEAD request is made using the full "Mozilla/5.0 (Nintendo Switch; WifiWebAuthApplet) ..." user agent (that we also see when browing web pages).
These requests are used to determine if the captive portal has been authenticated yet. In a normal flow, as soon as you agree to the terms or log into the hotel wifi, these requests would reply with a special header (
X-Organization: Nintendo) which informs the Switch that it's connected to the Internet.After exactly 20 of the GET requests, and 401 of the HEAD requests, the browser shuts, which is expected just looking at how frequently they occur (401 = (60/3)*20+1). Although it would be interesting if instead of it being a "timeout" if it were more like "try 400 times to connect every 3 seconds, then give up".
Based on this, by counting the number of requests made, it should be possible on our end to tell when the pop up is about to appear. But there still doesn't seem like there's anything that can be done on the networking side of things to interrupt it.
Also interesting is that in the DNS log, a domain name request is only made around every minute. This means in the normal workflow, depending on how the hotspot's captive portal works, it may take up to a minute to be authenticated.
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the fastest i was able to reconnect was a mere 2 seconds lol....
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the fastestes i reconnect is like 1-3 mins ;_;
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the fastestes i reconnect is like 1-3 mins ;_;
@Akaza fastest was 30 minutes bc i went to eat a apple
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@Akaza im sorry im the apple person of this forum
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@Akaza fastest was 30 minutes bc i went to eat a apple
@applelmao said in Browser Timeout: "This Screen will be closed.":
@Akaza fastest was 30 minutes bc i went to eat a apple
pffftt
