Connecting app to restricted network
I'm currently in a situation where I don't have a proper Internet connection and am using my phones Internet to get by.
But my carrier frowns on the practice so in order to keep my data usage down and in check I'm running a program called Tiny Wall that pretty much locks down everything entirely, including windows, so nothing gets through without being given express permission.
So with that said, I've given the factory mod manager the ability to connect, and it is able to connect and pull existing mod updates, but in the main window it says it can't connect to the fiscit.app so won't show the mod library.
My question is what do I need to give internet access in order to make the app fully functional?
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It sounds like your Tiny Wall system blocks network requests. If you allow connections to anything.ficsit.app, regardless of the application, it should in theory work
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I think that depends more on what exactly Tiny Wall is doing
Mod manager talk should be only *.ficsit.app afaik
I think you can use tools like Wireshark to find this out for any software even if you can't contact the devs to ask
What do you mean by it should only be .fiscit.app, is that a UWP app?
The exe I granted permission was the Mod Manager located in my app data/local/programs/satisfactory mod manager folder. Is the app using another program to connect out? Like using edge for its web portal or something?
I tried including any child processes the manager may spawn but that also didn't work.
Solution
It sounds like your Tiny Wall system blocks network requests. If you allow connections to anything.ficsit.app, regardless of the application, it should in theory work
SMM uses Evergreen Webview2 for rendering
Well I'm not entirely sure what I did, but after installing Wireshark and then trying to figure it out all the sudden in the background the manager suddenly connected, so I guess I'm good now. Thanks!