runescape.com

Mixed

Results vary across runescape.com: of 9 URLs tested, 3 are blocked and 6 load normally. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out. 420 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-18, the most recent on 2026-07-03.

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://runescape.com is not blocked, https://runescape.com is 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.

9URLs tested
3blocked
420tests all-time
2011first tested
2 mo agolast tested

The site itself

http://runescape.comNot blockedhttps://runescape.comas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.runescape.comas of 2026Not blocked

Pages and subdomains (6)

http://runescape.com/gameas of 2026Blockedhttp://runescape.com/communityNot blockedhttps://play.runescape.comas of 2026Not blockedhttp://Oldschool.runescape.comNot blockedhttps://oldschool.runescape.comas of 2026Not blockedhttp://www.runescape.com/communityas of 2026Blocked

About runescape.com and the Great Firewall

Is runescape.com blocked in mainland China?

Results vary across runescape.com: of 9 URLs tested, 3 are blocked and 6 load normally. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out. 420 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-18, the most recent on 2026-07-03.

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

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://runescape.com is not blocked, https://runescape.com is 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 runescape.com from mainland China?

A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks runescape.com. 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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