Bug 418907 - Strange connection to cloudfront
Summary: Strange connection to cloudfront
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 399449
Alias: None
Product: plasma-browser-integration
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kai Uwe Broulik
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Reported: 2020-03-16 06:22 UTC by sowieso
Modified: 2020-03-16 08:55 UTC (History)
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Description sowieso 2020-03-16 06:22:58 UTC 
As the docs say: 
”Everything is handled on your PC between the browser and your desktop, no additional data is sent via the web.”,
I'm a bit confused why I see this line running the command ‘lsof -Pi’

plasma-br  1805   me  153u  IPv4   29822      0t0  TCP 192.168.0.4:36280->server-99-84-133-80.nrt57.r.cloudfront.net:443 (CLOSE_WAIT)

This connection is permanently in state CLOSE_WAIT. But why is there a connection to cloudfront in the first place? This doesn't really sound like respecting my privacy.

Please elaborate and in case it's a bug, please fix it.

Observed in Firefox 74.0 (64-bit).

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0
Qt Version: 5.14.1
Kernel Version: 5.5.8-arch1-1
OS Type: 64-bit
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2020-03-16 08:45:51 UTC 
I can see a bunch of unusual connections to AWS, and other crap being listed when running it in Firefox. I suspect it's Firefox leaking that to the host? There is nothing when running Chrome.

The only active networking code in the p-b-i host is mimetype determination when using the "Share..." menu.
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2020-03-16 08:55:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 399449 ***