thenorthface.com
Mixed
Results vary across thenorthface.com: of 4 URLs tested, 2 are blocked, 1 is disrupted some of the time and 1 loads normally. The Great Firewall blocks the connection outright. 70 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-10-15, the most recent on 2026-10-02.
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://thenorthface.comBlockedhttps://thenorthface.comIntermittenthttp://www.thenorthface.comNot blockedhttps://www.thenorthface.comBlockedAbout thenorthface.com and the Great Firewall
Results vary across thenorthface.com: of 4 URLs tested, 2 are blocked, 1 is disrupted some of the time and 1 loads normally. The Great Firewall blocks the connection outright. 70 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-10-15, the most recent on 2026-10-02.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://thenorthface.com is blocked, https://thenorthface.com 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 thenorthface.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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