You are assuming all devices have 3G?

0x0 · on Sept 19, 2012

In any case, if the wifi AP responds with "impossible" results, the wifi access point is for all purposes "unusable", and you wouldn't be able to get on the internet anyways.

obilgic · on Sept 19, 2012

internet connection != http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html

When did "successful wifi connection" mean having access to this unstable apple.com url?

taligent · on Sept 20, 2012

Since for 99.99999% of users being able to visit a web page means the internet is working.

Remember Apple never optimises for edge case.

mikeash · on Sept 20, 2012

I had no idea the entire internet became unreachable when a particular apple.com URL became inaccessible. Is there an RFC that covers this?

Blara · on Sept 20, 2012

nope, but a better fallback would probably be: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549