#China

An attempt to create a list of major blocked sites in China (or any other country/ISP). It’s written entirely in Bash.

Github repo riiiiiiight here. It’s used by my PAC-generator.

The Github page is updated once a day by three hosts. One in Belgium, one in The Netherlands, and a Guruplug in China. This way you can compare the results (in case some are down or replying slowly).

As it’s impossible to test every possible site, I just check popular sites (and a bunch of sites from Alexa). But if you know blocked sites not in the list, please submit them – thanks!

I made a simple bash script that generates a proxy auto configuration file.

The PAC file generated redirects all matching rules through the proxy.

The only issue at the moment, is that, once the list gets big, it’s not very performance-friendly. Something I’ll try to fix in the coming days.

I’m using this script to generate a proxy.pac file at work to redirect blocked content in China through the proxy for our employees currently in China.

Set link. Updated (almost) daily. Until the 19th November.

Today, I'm leaving for Beijing, China for a whole month as part of my internship at KdG. Wish me luck. ;)

Tons of pics will be posted on Flickr.

I'm not entirely sure what sites and services will be blocked (yay for the Great Chinese Firewall), but my VPN tunnel should do the trick. Hopefully. And I'm still reachable through e-mail.

Bubye x!