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soas.ac.uk

Mixed

Results vary across soas.ac.uk: of 11 URLs tested, 6 are blocked, 2 are disrupted some of the time and 3 have no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and breaks its TLS handshake. 167 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-02-27, the most recent on 2026-07-29.

DNS poisoning 4 Timeout / silent drop 3 TLS handshake failure 3 Connection reset 1
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://soas.ac.uk is blocked, https://soas.ac.uk 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.

11URLs tested
6blocked
167tests all-time
2015first tested
26 d agolast tested

The site itself

http://soas.ac.ukas of 2026Blockedhttps://soas.ac.ukIntermittenthttp://www.soas.ac.ukBlockedhttps://www.soas.ac.ukas of 2026Blocked

Pages and subdomains (7)

http://ble.soas.ac.ukUnresolvablehttp://mail.soas.ac.ukas of 2026Blockedhttps://ble.soas.ac.ukUnresolvablehttps://moodle.soas.ac.ukas of 2026Intermittenthttps://mx1.it.soas.ac.ukBlockedhttps://mx2.it.soas.ac.ukBlockedhttps://eprints.soas.ac.ukUnresolvable

About soas.ac.uk and the Great Firewall

Is soas.ac.uk blocked in mainland China?

Results vary across soas.ac.uk: of 11 URLs tested, 6 are blocked, 2 are disrupted some of the time and 3 have no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and breaks its TLS handshake. 167 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-02-27, the most recent on 2026-07-29.

Why does http://soas.ac.uk behave differently from https://soas.ac.uk?

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://soas.ac.uk is blocked, https://soas.ac.uk 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.

How can I reach soas.ac.uk from mainland China?

A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks soas.ac.uk. 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.

Elsewhere on the site

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