Btw. Android seems to use a very similar technique. It calls http://x/generate_204 while x is one of multiple Google-owned internet hosts (for example connectivitycheck.android.com or clients1.google.com), see also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1989214/google-com-and-clients1 -google-com-generate-204.
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