Partkeepr try to access to remote urls, could it be dangerous?

[sruedat]

Hi, I've installed parkeepr from this source.
At the first time I did some probes with a virtual machine at home, and now that all is OK I've decided to put it on producction.

But my supprise is that partkeepr frontend page loads very very slow, I've found that my firewall is dropping some connections that partkeepr installation is trying to estabilsh:

api.snapcraft.io

and

pfote.drachenkatze.org

If I allow in my firewall access to these urls, partkeepr loads very fast but if I dont allow this urls the fronted goes slow again.

What is the porpuse of this external urls connections? (I've not found anything in the docummentation)

Thanks

[Liebeg]

drachenkatze.org seems to be tthe website of the original founder of PartKeepr.

[ludoc]

Hi,

i didn't reviewed all the code but connections blocked by your firewall are probably initiated by this :

PartKeepr/src/PartKeepr/CoreBundle/DependencyInjection/Configuration.php

Lines 40 to 44 in f6176c3

	->scalarNode('patreon_status')
	->cannotBeEmpty()
	->defaultValue('https://partkeepr.org/patreon.json')
	->info('The URI from where the patreon status is loaded')
	->end()

PartKeepr/src/PartKeepr/CoreBundle/Services/SystemService.php

Lines 289 to 307 in f6176c3

	public function getPatreonStatus()
	{
	$statusURI = $this->container->getParameter("partkeepr.patreon.statusuri");
	if ($statusURI === false) {
	return false;
	}
	try {
	$client = new Client();
	$request = $client->createRequest('GET', $statusURI, ['timeout' => 3.14]);
	$request->send();
	return json_decode($request->getResponse()->getBody(), true);
	} catch (\Exception $e) {
	return false;
	}
	}
	}

PartKeepr/src/PartKeepr/FrontendBundle/Controller/IndexController.php

Line 73 in f6176c3

$aParameters["patreonStatus"] = $this->get("partkeepr_systemservice")->getPatreonStatus();

At this time, partkeepr.org is hosted on (or behind) pfote.drachenkatze.org so no problem on this

For api.snapcraft.io, I don't know where does it come from