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Draft: Captive Portal URI handling [RFC8910]

Sandro Pischinger requested to merge psandro/NetworkManager:fr_captive_portal into main

Summary

This merge request adds support for handling a Captive Portal Identification. This includes reading the captive portal url from dhcp options and router advertisements.

partially resolves #1305

This is a draft for now in order to get feedback during development. Feel free to reply below.

Purpose

The purpose of this change is to be able receiving RFC8910 DHCP options/RA and provide that information to the user or other mechanisms like the captive portal api (RFC 8908).

Checklist

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