// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS // SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause // Package captivedetection provides a way to detect if the system is connected to a network that has // a captive portal. It does this by making HTTP requests to known captive portal detection endpoints // and checking if the HTTP responses indicate that a captive portal might be present. package captivedetection import ( "context" "net" "net/http" "runtime" "strings" "sync" "syscall" "time" "tailscale.com/net/netmon" "tailscale.com/tailcfg" "tailscale.com/types/logger" ) // Detector checks whether the system is behind a captive portal. type Detector struct { // httpClient is the HTTP client that is used for captive portal detection. It is configured // to not follow redirects, have a short timeout and no keep-alive. httpClient *http.Client // currIfIndex is the index of the interface that is currently being used by the httpClient. currIfIndex int // mu guards currIfIndex. mu sync.Mutex // logf is the logger used for logging messages. If it is nil, log.Printf is used. logf logger.Logf } // NewDetector creates a new Detector instance for captive portal detection. func NewDetector(logf logger.Logf) *Detector { d := &Detector{logf: logf} d.httpClient = &http.Client{ // No redirects allowed CheckRedirect: func(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error { return http.ErrUseLastResponse }, Transport: &http.Transport{ DialContext: d.dialContext, DisableKeepAlives: true, }, Timeout: Timeout, } return d } // Timeout is the timeout for captive portal detection requests. Because the captive portal intercepting our requests // is usually located on the LAN, this is a relatively short timeout. const Timeout = 3 * time.Second // Detect is the entry point to the API. It attempts to detect if the system is behind a captive portal // by making HTTP requests to known captive portal detection Endpoints. If any of the requests return a response code // or body that looks like a captive portal, Detect returns true. It returns false in all other cases, including when any // error occurs during a detection attempt. // // This function might take a while to return, as it will attempt to detect a captive portal on all available interfaces // by performing multiple HTTP requests. It should be called in a separate goroutine if you want to avoid blocking. func (d *Detector) Detect(ctx context.Context, netMon *netmon.Monitor, derpMap *tailcfg.DERPMap, preferredDERPRegionID int) (found bool) { return d.detectCaptivePortalWithGOOS(ctx, netMon, derpMap, preferredDERPRegionID, runtime.GOOS) } func (d *Detector) detectCaptivePortalWithGOOS(ctx context.Context, netMon *netmon.Monitor, derpMap *tailcfg.DERPMap, preferredDERPRegionID int, goos string) (found bool) { ifState := netMon.InterfaceState() if !ifState.AnyInterfaceUp() { d.logf("[v2] DetectCaptivePortal: no interfaces up, returning false") return false } endpoints := availableEndpoints(derpMap, preferredDERPRegionID, d.logf, goos) // Here we try detecting a captive portal using *all* available interfaces on the system // that have a IPv4 address. We consider to have found a captive portal when any interface // reports one may exists. This is necessary because most systems have multiple interfaces, // and most importantly on macOS no default route interface is set until the user has accepted // the captive portal alert thrown by the system. If no default route interface is known, // we need to try with anything that might remotely resemble a Wi-Fi interface. for ifName, i := range ifState.Interface { if !i.IsUp() || i.IsLoopback() || interfaceNameDoesNotNeedCaptiveDetection(ifName, goos) { continue } addrs, err := i.Addrs() if err != nil { d.logf("[v1] DetectCaptivePortal: failed to get addresses for interface %s: %v", ifName, err) continue } if len(addrs) == 0 { continue } d.logf("[v2] attempting to do captive portal detection on interface %s", ifName) res := d.detectOnInterface(ctx, i.Index, endpoints) if res { d.logf("DetectCaptivePortal(found=true,ifName=%s)", ifName) return true } } d.logf("DetectCaptivePortal(found=false)") return false } // interfaceNameDoesNotNeedCaptiveDetection returns true if an interface does not require captive portal detection // based on its name. This is useful to avoid making unnecessary HTTP requests on interfaces that are known to not // require it. We also avoid making requests on the interface prefixes "pdp" and "rmnet", which are cellular data // interfaces on iOS and Android, respectively, and would be needlessly battery-draining. func interfaceNameDoesNotNeedCaptiveDetection(ifName string, goos string) bool { ifName = strings.ToLower(ifName) excludedPrefixes := []string{"tailscale", "tun", "tap", "docker", "kube", "wg", "ipsec"} if goos == "windows" { excludedPrefixes = append(excludedPrefixes, "loopback", "tunnel", "ppp", "isatap", "teredo", "6to4") } else if goos == "darwin" || goos == "ios" { excludedPrefixes = append(excludedPrefixes, "pdp", "awdl", "bridge", "ap", "utun", "tap", "llw", "anpi", "lo", "stf", "gif", "xhc", "pktap") } else if goos == "android" { excludedPrefixes = append(excludedPrefixes, "rmnet", "p2p", "dummy", "sit") } for _, prefix := range excludedPrefixes { if strings.HasPrefix(ifName, prefix) { return true } } return false } // detectOnInterface reports whether or not we think the system is behind a // captive portal, detected by making a request to a URL that we know should // return a "204 No Content" response and checking if that's what we get. // // The boolean return is whether we think we have a captive portal. func (d *Detector) detectOnInterface(ctx context.Context, ifIndex int, endpoints []Endpoint) bool { defer d.httpClient.CloseIdleConnections() use := min(len(endpoints), 5) endpoints = endpoints[:use] d.logf("[v2] %d available captive portal detection endpoints; trying %v", len(endpoints), use) // We try to detect the captive portal more quickly by making requests to multiple endpoints concurrently. var wg sync.WaitGroup resultCh := make(chan bool, len(endpoints)) // Once any goroutine detects a captive portal, we shut down the others. ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx) defer cancel() for _, e := range endpoints { wg.Add(1) go func(endpoint Endpoint) { defer wg.Done() found, err := d.verifyCaptivePortalEndpoint(ctx, endpoint, ifIndex) if err != nil { if ctx.Err() == nil { d.logf("[v1] checkCaptivePortalEndpoint failed with endpoint %v: %v", endpoint, err) } return } if found { cancel() // one match is good enough resultCh <- true } }(e) } go func() { wg.Wait() close(resultCh) }() for result := range resultCh { if result { // If any of the endpoints seems to be a captive portal, we consider the system to be behind one. return true } } return false } // verifyCaptivePortalEndpoint checks if the given Endpoint is a captive portal by making an HTTP request to the // given Endpoint URL using the interface with index ifIndex, and checking if the response looks like a captive portal. func (d *Detector) verifyCaptivePortalEndpoint(ctx context.Context, e Endpoint, ifIndex int) (found bool, err error) { ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, Timeout) defer cancel() req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, "GET", e.URL.String(), nil) if err != nil { return false, err } // Attach the Tailscale challenge header if the endpoint supports it. Not all captive portal detection endpoints // support this, so we only attach it if the endpoint does. if e.SupportsTailscaleChallenge { // Note: the set of valid characters in a challenge and the total // length is limited; see isChallengeChar in cmd/derper for more // details. chal := "ts_" + e.URL.Host req.Header.Set("X-Tailscale-Challenge", chal) } d.mu.Lock() d.currIfIndex = ifIndex d.mu.Unlock() // Make the actual request, and check if the response looks like a captive portal or not. r, err := d.httpClient.Do(req) if err != nil { return false, err } return e.responseLooksLikeCaptive(r, d.logf), nil } func (d *Detector) dialContext(ctx context.Context, network, addr string) (net.Conn, error) { d.mu.Lock() defer d.mu.Unlock() ifIndex := d.currIfIndex dl := &net.Dialer{ Timeout: Timeout, Control: func(network, address string, c syscall.RawConn) error { return setSocketInterfaceIndex(c, ifIndex, d.logf) }, } return dl.DialContext(ctx, network, addr) }