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TetherFi - Internet sharing without Root
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cleartextTraffic #263

Closed IzzySoft closed 8 months ago

IzzySoft commented 8 months ago

Sorry for bothering you, but I just need some clarification. The updater of my repo (which recently got some security checks added) just reported to me:

! repo/com.pyamsoft.tetherfi_40.apk declares flags: usesCleartextTraffic

I guess that's needed in your case, but before I add it to your app's allow-list with a reason I think stands behind it, can you please tell me the real one? Thanks in advance!

pyamsoft commented 8 months ago

Hi

Since TetherFi is a proxy we just forward the network requests of other applications. Many use clear text traffic for connectivity checking upon initially connecting to a wifi network, thus we need the flag.

TetherFi itself actually makes no internet connections except those that are fired as an implementation detail of using the Google version checker library

IzzySoft commented 8 months ago

Thanks for confirming! That was about what I thought it would be. Will add it to the allow-list for TetherFi then … done.