Comment 23 for bug 1722256

(In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #6)
> (In reply to Thomas Haller from comment #5)
> > (In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #2)
> > >
> > > [ 3920.153840] f21v.localdomain NetworkManager[826]: <info> Connectivity
> > > check for uri 'https://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt' failed with
> > > 'Peer failed to perform TLS handshake'.
> >
> > In this case, the connectivity check failed because of the SSL connection.
> >
> > It is anyway a bad idea to use https for connectivity checking.
>
> Why? It protects the user's privacy, at least a tiny bit.

there is nothing private about the connectivity-check request. Especially does the HTTP header not contain fields beside:

  GET /static/hotspot.txt HTTP/1.1
  Host: fedoraproject.org
  Connection: close