AUR helper Octopi wants to connect to google.com and baidu.com by detecting Portmaster-notification

Zesko · 2 December 2023 16:06

I am prompted by a nice notification from Portmaster-firewall to allow or deny two connections, when octopi performs an update after it wants to connect to google.com and baidu.com (in China) first.

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I do not know why does it need to connect to two URLs? But they are not related to the AUR host and the pacman repositories.

octopi is in Manjaro repo.

Edit:

More details:

megavolt · 2 December 2023 16:14

It is a ping test:

github.com

aarnt/octopi/blob/a07a3a9b389f7742ae2d7436154c8a2746db50fa/src/unixcommand.cpp#L648-L665


      
          /*
           * Pings google site, to make sure internet is OK
           */
          bool UnixCommand::doInternetPingTest()
          {
            QTcpSocket socket;
            QString hostname = QStringLiteral("www.google.com");
          
            socket.connectToHost(hostname, 80);
            if (socket.waitForConnected(5000))
              return true;
            else
            {
              hostname = QStringLiteral("www.baidu.com");
              socket.connectToHost(hostname, 80);
              return socket.waitForConnected(5000);
            }
          }

system · 4 December 2023 04:14

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