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> The actual answer (I could tell this was drawn from a real experience) was "China" “China” would have been my first answer to that question. After spending
by guessmyname 8y ago
> The actual answer (I could tell this was drawn from a real experience) was "China"
“China” would have been my first answer to that question.
After spending so much time in a project that deals with massive amounts of HTTP requests from China, I realized that the majority of web developers are making too many assumptions. Several times I have found myself patching pieces of code because the connection was suddenly dropping in the middle of the operation, so I had to add retries and read incomplete streams of bytes to recover at least pieces of the actual data from our Chinese netizens.
In retrospective, I have learned a lot about TCP in the last year with this project.
- nostrademons 8y agoIt's extra fun when you're debugging strange connection resets that occur on a seemingly-random subset of A/B tests, and then find out that it's because a substring of the digits in the experiment ID happens to match the numeric date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, which is censored by the Great Firewall.
- vermilingua 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
- Allan_Smithee 8y agoI just tried https://www.microsoft.com/19890604 https://www.microsoft.com/19890604 from inside China (Wuhan, to be specific) on a naked (non-back-doored) connection. I got Microsoft's 404, not any of the GFW behaviour I've come to know and loathe. I think I'll be calling bullshit on this.
- Allan_Smithee 8y agoTo clarify, I actually queried http://www.microsoft.com/19890604 http://www.microsoft.com/19890604 and had it redirected to https://.. https://... by Microsoft's server. So the URL query was in plaintext. Just, you know, so the undies come unbunched before people comment.
- Allan_Smithee 8y agoAnd another data point. https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=19890604&rsv_spt=1&rsv_iqid=0xfd200f44000049be&issp=1&f=8&rsv_bp=0&rsv_idx=2&ie=utf-8&tn=baiduhome_pg&rsv_enter=1&rsv_sug3=11&rsv_sug1=4&rsv_sug7=100&rsv_sug2=0&inputT=5250&rsv_sug4=5250 https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=19890604&rsv_spt=1&rsv_iqid=0xfd2... No blocking there and it's a Chinese search engine!
- nostrademons 8y agoRead vermilingua's Wikipedia link on Illegal Numbers. This was in 2012, which lines up with the reference cited on Wikipedia for the GFW blocking the numbers 89, 6, and 4. They reversed course after getting called out for this being brain dead.