reachability

How do you make an iOS app launch a captive portal (hotspot login)?

When using Safari at a place with a captive portal like Starbucks, iOS devices will launch a special modal webview to authenticate with the portal. I've seen third party apps trigger this so it's possible to do outside of Safari but I don't know how. It doesn't seem to come for free just by using Reachability or making a network request....