Methods and apparatus to discover authentication information in a wireless networking environment

A method for discovering network authentication information on a wireless network, the method comprising: transmitting, from a wireless terminal, during network discovery and before authentication, a Generic Advertising Service, GAS, request to a point of network access, the GAS request that requests network authentication information; receiving, by the wireless terminal, a response to the GAS request from the network access point; and recovering from the response network authentication information, wherein the network authentication information includes authentication type information, and wherein the authentication type information indicates that the wireless terminal performs at least one of: (a ) online login registration, or (b) domain name server, DNS, redirection. (Automatic translation with Google Translate, without legal value)