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Old 06-26-2018, 09:46 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
The URL for the check is now http://www.kobo.com/buildinfo.xml. The was a discussion about how to get around this recently. It was someone doing something on a local network to return the appropriate results.

This WebPortal mod already does that local network hack (refered to as intranet wifi in posts above), but it's still set to the old URL.

You can edit it yourself, add www.kobo.com to vhosts.conf and put that buildinfo.xml file into the webportal dir next to ncsi.txt that was used before.

If they're not checking anything else, the same trick should still work. (Change of vhosts.conf might require a reboot.)

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