Getting around HTTPS on plane flight wifi?

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I know this is a really strange question, but please hear me out.

I’m flying to Colorado right now on a Southwest Airlines flight. I have an online class meeting at 7pm(eastern), but the wifi on the flight blocks all websites with HTTPS. The website that I need to get to uses HTTPS. Does anyone know how to get to an HTTPS site on an in-air wifi network? I’m not as worried about the class as I am just notifying my teacher that I won’t be able to attend. I figured that since the flight had wifi I would be just fine, but obviously I was wrong.

This is the only site I can access that I feel could be useful at all… Google, Facebook, Twitter, my online class website, etc. are all blocked. Safari (I’m on a Mac) says “cannot get a secure connection to <website url>”

Thanks for any help!!

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There’s your problem, you’re using Safari.
Haha JK but since it’s been a couple days I assume you’ve got it all sorted out. I recommend using Chrome or Firefox next time you’re on flight to see if that would fix it.

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Go to your browsers setting and disable something similar to HTTPS everywhere. There is a non-HTTPS version of all major sites (Google, Facebook, Twitter).

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Never did get it to work, but Safari wasn’t (entirely) the problem. I also tried Chrome and Firefox on my Mac. Couldn’t even get to http://google.com when typing the whole thing in on purpose. Also tried with an Android Asus tablet and an iPad Mini.

We have reached the conclusion that perhaps it was a problem with the wifi on the plane, but if someone knows that there is indeed something I should’ve done I would love to know for if I’m (or anyone else is) ever in the situation again.

Thanks!

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So… why is this on the Chief Delphi forums??

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It’s in chit chat, where threads about pretty much anything are acceptable (within reason). It’s the forum for random off topic threads.

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Partly because (while I was on the plane) this was literally the only website I could get to (all others were unavailable, if you read above) that I thought might be of any help getting online. Everyone here is smart and I figured that maybe someone with knowledge of networking or something could help out. I posted it in Chit-chat because I knew it didn’t fit in any other categories.

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