From 98d526da19d1326ac0418ed233a59bb99d453460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 09:52:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] further improve default connections FAQ --- static/faq.html | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/static/faq.html b/static/faq.html index f385ec55..b7e670a0 100644 --- a/static/faq.html +++ b/static/faq.html @@ -489,11 +489,11 @@

The connectivity checks are done by performing an empty GET request to a server returning an empty response with a 204 No Content response code. The - request uses a standard, frozen value for the user agent and doesn't send any - query/data to the server.

+ request uses a standard, frozen value for the user agent matching the same + value used by billions of other Android devices:

+ +
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.32 Safari/537.36
-

Standard frozen AOSP user agent for the GET request:

-

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.32 Safari/537.36

No query / data is sent to the servers and the response is unused beyond checking the response code.