Type

You can select either "Login" or "Logout" here.

Depending on the captive portal, it may be useful to log the user out again after the test is completed. This can, for example, conserve resources on the captive portal gateway or allow the same credentials to be used for subsequent test runs.

To do this, create an additional entry with the type "Logout". Configure the Form Action so that it performs the logout action of the captive portal. The logout URL may differ from the URL of the login form. Analyze the HTML code of the respective portal for this purpose.

However, many modern captive portals with click-through login do not provide a logout function. In this case, the user session is terminated only after a timeout. A captive portal test that runs regularly at short intervals may then succeed without actually checking the login, because the MAC address of the testing access point is still cached in the captive portal.

If you manage the captive portal yourself, a special test function may be useful. For example, a hidden form in the HTML code could start a dedicated test session that automatically expires after a short time.