gulfnews.com
Mixed
Results vary across gulfnews.com: of 3 URLs tested, 1 is disrupted some of the time, 1 loads normally and 1 has no conclusive recent result. 99 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-11, the most recent on 2026-08-18.
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.
The site itself
http://gulfnews.comas of 2026Intermittenthttps://gulfnews.comNot blockedPages and subdomains (1)
https://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/society/chinese-students-speak-of-positive-experience-in-the-uae-1.2254720?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=postUnresolvableAbout gulfnews.com and the Great Firewall
Results vary across gulfnews.com: of 3 URLs tested, 1 is disrupted some of the time, 1 loads normally and 1 has no conclusive recent result. 99 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-11, the most recent on 2026-08-18.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://gulfnews.com is intermittent, https://gulfnews.com 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.
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