Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Agent ProxyArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.251,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The proxy's egress check now stands up a loopback server, performs an actual WebSocket upgrade and pushes data through it, watching whether the send buffer backs up, which detects outbound traffic being blocked more reliably than a plain connection attempt.
Details
the handshake gives up after a timeout and reports that instead of hanging
runs as part of proxy startup and diagnostics
Evidence
handshake timeout
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
