Reach the website through cast.weenas.com where Cloudflare is blocked - #185
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In many networks in mainland China castbay.weenas.com (Cloudflare) can't be reached, so the update check fell back to GitHub (without release notes) and problem reports and statistics couldn't be sent at all. A Google TV on such a network timed out connecting to it while reaching GitHub and the developer's server fine. cast.weenas.com is a relay on that server (Apache, its own ZeroSSL certificate, which old Android trusts): it passes only GET /latest.json and POST /api/reports, /api/stats and /api/stats/delete on to the website, keeps no access log, and names the device's address in X-CastBay-Client-IP, which the Worker believes only from the relay's address (RELAY_IPS) and uses only for its rate limits. The app's requests (util/Servers.kt) try the website, then the relay, starting with whichever answered last; an HTTP answer isn't retried elsewhere. -Pcastbay.reportsUrl becomes -Pcastbay.serverUrl, the base address (no relay then). The privacy policy describes the relay. Tested on the Google TV (website unreachable): the update check and a problem report (CB-K481Z8) both went through the relay. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In many mainland-China networks castbay.weenas.com (Cloudflare) is unreachable. On those networks the update check fell back to GitHub, which had no release notes, and problem reports and statistics failed outright.
cast.weenas.comruns on the developer's VPS (Apache, ZeroSSL cert trusted by old Android). It forwards onlyGET /latest.jsonandPOST /api/reports|stats|stats/deleteto the website and keeps no access log. It sends the device's address inX-CastBay-Client-IP.RELAY_IPS(45.195.196.12), and only for its rate limits.util/Servers.kttries the website, then the relay, starting with whichever answered last. An HTTP answer is not retried elsewhere. Update check order: website → relay → GitHub.Tested on a Google TV whose network can't reach Cloudflare:
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