The edge geo-gate serves US, PE and BO for the relay and accounts hosts, and
answers 451 for anywhere else — before the request reaches the relay. Nothing in
either client knew what 451 meant, so it fell through to the generic branch.
⚠️ **The download site is deliberately not gated**, which makes this worse than
a bad error string. Someone outside those countries can read the page, install
the app, choose a password, tap sign up, and be told "relay returned 451".
Nothing in that mentions their country, and it is not a failure they can retry
past, so the only sensible reading is that the app is broken.
451 is the right status — this is a legal/policy refusal, not a 403 — so the
only thing missing was somebody translating it.
client 96.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
