RetroAchievements login failed - Error 451

Is there an existing issue for this?

• This is a bug in RetroArch frontend
• I have searched the existing issues

Description

When RetroAchievements is enabled and the user/password is correct, it presents a weird error and the app can't login to RetroAchievements.

The error says "Error login failed - Error 451 - file unavailable for legal reasons"

This is happening in Retroarch Android.

As we have talked in the forum of RA (https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/31974), perhaps this is as easy as change the login URL from "http" to "https".

And perhaps this is only happening in some countries. I'm testing from Spain.
HTTP Code 451 means some censored content. But perhaps this is fixed with a change from http to https.

Expected behavior

The login should work.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. From Retroarch Android, Configure and connect to RetroAchievements, with your username and password.
2. Play some game.

Version/Commit

1.21.0

Bisect Results

No response

Present in the nightly version

I don't know

Platform & operating system

Android 13

Affected Cores

No response

Environment information

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Relevant log output

Start from the RetroAchievements connection flow in RetroArch Android and reproduce the login failure on Android 13 with the credentials described. Check the login endpoint used by that flow, then verify that the expected behavior—successful authentication and gameplay access—works and is regression-tested; no source file or test is named in the issue.