User needs to allow access because Windows Defender initially blocks connections
This is what it looks like when initially starting Briar Desktop on Windows 10:
This was initially brought up in this thread.
Suggestions include:
- @ialokim: Perhaps we should consider showing information to the user explaining that they should accept connections if they want Briar to work correctly. Or if we want to be even fancier, somehow check if the connections are blocked by the firewall and then show some kind of dialog to the user explaining how the block can be undone. Probably something for a new issue in any case.
- @akwizgran: BTW there's an API for adding firewall rules, which IIRC prevents the Windows Defender dialog from popping up. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/previous-versions/windows/desktop/ics/windows-firewall-advanced-security-start-page