virginia.edu
Mixed
Results vary across virginia.edu: of 11 URLs tested, 1 is blocked, 1 is disrupted some of the time, 4 load normally and 5 have no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out. 313 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-11, the most recent on 2026-09-01.
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://virginia.eduas of 2026Blockedhttps://virginia.eduIntermittenthttp://www.virginia.eduas of 2026Not blockedPages and subdomains (8)
http://imedicine.virginia.eduUnresolvablehttps://collab.its.virginia.eduUnresolvablehttp://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.eduUnresolvablehttps://texts.mandala.library.virginia.eduNot blockedhttp://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/Tibet/tibet.htmlas of 2026Not blockedhttp://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/nationprofiles/China/status.htmlUnresolvablehttp://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/nationprofiles/China/rbodies.htmlUnresolvablehttps://sisuva.admin.virginia.edu/psp/ihprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=PAPP_GUESTas of 2026Not blockedAbout virginia.edu and the Great Firewall
Results vary across virginia.edu: of 11 URLs tested, 1 is blocked, 1 is disrupted some of the time, 4 load normally and 5 have no conclusive recent result. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out. 313 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-11, the most recent on 2026-09-01.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://virginia.edu is blocked, https://virginia.edu 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 virginia.edu. 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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