johnny
(Johnny)
May 7, 2020, 7:31pm
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Just installed the Windows SyncTrayzor app on Windows 10. Works great! I wanted to know though, why the app pings antonymale.co.uk ? As I understand it Antony is the maintainer of the Windows SyncTrayzor app.
I can’t see the packets that were sent unfortunately, so I just want to know what exactly is being sent to antonymale.co.uk ? I imagine it’s probably something like an install notification, right?
It’s probably an update check
They host an update check there:
private static readonly XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AppSettings), new XmlRootAttribute(sectionName));
public static readonly AppSettings Instance;
static AppSettings()
{
var reader = (XmlReader)ConfigurationManager.GetSection(sectionName);
Instance = (AppSettings)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}
public string UpdateApiUrl { get; set; } = "http://synctrayzor.antonymale.co.uk/version-check";
public string HomepageUrl { get; set; } = "http://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor";
public int DirectoryWatcherBackoffMilliseconds { get; set; } = 2000;
public int DirectoryWatcherFolderExistenceCheckMilliseconds { get; set; } = 3000;
public string IssuesUrl { get; set; } = "http://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor/issues";
public bool EnableAutostartOnFirstStart { get; set; } = false;
public int CefRemoteDebuggingPort { get; set; } = 0;
public SyncTrayzorVariant Variant { get; set; } = SyncTrayzorVariant.Portable;
public int SyncthingConnectTimeoutSeconds { get; set; } = 600;
public bool EnforceSingleProcessPerUser { get; set; } = true;
I glanced at the source code and it seems the update check sends the current SyncTrayzor version, system CPU arch (ARM, AMD64…) and a “variant” to the update server. (https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor/blob/9f8d4382f057f81fd0337003920b38955076d7ce/src/SyncTrayzor/Services/UpdateManagement/UpdateChecker.cs#L79 )
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system
(system)
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June 7, 2020, 12:06am
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