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australianchinesedaily.com.au

Mixed

Results vary across australianchinesedaily.com.au: of 4 URLs tested, 3 are blocked and 1 loads normally. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, blocks the connection outright and breaks its TLS handshake. 72 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-11-01, the most recent on 2026-06-12.

Timeout / silent drop 3 Connection failed 1 TLS handshake failure 1
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://australianchinesedaily.com.au is blocked, https://australianchinesedaily.com.au is not blocked.

The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.

4URLs tested
3blocked
72tests all-time
2015first tested
2 mo agolast tested

The site itself

http://australianchinesedaily.com.auBlockedhttps://australianchinesedaily.com.auas of 2026Not blockedhttp://www.australianchinesedaily.com.auas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.australianchinesedaily.com.auBlocked

About australianchinesedaily.com.au and the Great Firewall

Is australianchinesedaily.com.au blocked in mainland China?

Results vary across australianchinesedaily.com.au: of 4 URLs tested, 3 are blocked and 1 loads normally. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, blocks the connection outright and breaks its TLS handshake. 72 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-11-01, the most recent on 2026-06-12.

Why does http://australianchinesedaily.com.au behave differently from https://australianchinesedaily.com.au?

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://australianchinesedaily.com.au is blocked, https://australianchinesedaily.com.au is not blocked. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.

How can I reach australianchinesedaily.com.au from mainland China?

A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks australianchinesedaily.com.au. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.

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