nzherald.co.nz
Mixed
Results vary across nzherald.co.nz: of 5 URLs tested, 1 is blocked, 3 are disrupted some of the time and 1 loads normally. The Great Firewall blocks the connection outright. 189 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-08, the most recent on 2026-09-08.
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://nzherald.co.nzBlockedhttps://nzherald.co.nzIntermittenthttp://Www.nzherald.co.nzIntermittenthttps://www.nzherald.co.nzIntermittentPages and subdomains (1)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/letters-superannuation-victims-of-crime-benefit-cuts-and-nz-politics/4R6F2FKZ3VCWFJB3775BV3PZUEas of 2026Not blockedAbout nzherald.co.nz and the Great Firewall
Results vary across nzherald.co.nz: of 5 URLs tested, 1 is blocked, 3 are disrupted some of the time and 1 loads normally. The Great Firewall blocks the connection outright. 189 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-08, the most recent on 2026-09-08.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://nzherald.co.nz is blocked, https://nzherald.co.nz is intermittent. 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.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks nzherald.co.nz. 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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