Captive Wifi Popup: Click a link to open Safari

Question

We are having an issue on our network with iOS devices (ipads, iphones etc): After connecting to the SSID, the iphone / ipad immediately opens the Captive Network Assistant (CNA

Answer 1

Extracted from an answer by Ryan at How can I open an external link in Safari not the app's UIWebView?

To have a specific link switch to Safari, simply add target="_system" to the link, as in

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Or to catch all links in your javascript that have target="_blank", include jQuery and pass them to window.open with the '_system' param. This will work on both iOS and Android.

$(document).on('click', 'a[target="_blank"]', function(ev) {
  var url;

  ev.preventDefault();
  url = $(this).attr('href');
  window.open(url, '_system');
});