> What happens when you try to visit https://bridges.torproject.org/ with your (non-torified) browser?
I can confirm that it's possible to access this site at the present time. Thanks for the feedback on this question & thanks also for providing some alternative methods for obtaining bridges. Regards, John On 4/1/10, Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 01:50:06PM +0000, john smith wrote: >> I've been unable to download bridges in the 1.3.3 version of the >> tor-browser bundle for windows, when attempting to download bridges >> via Settings>Network>Find Bridges Now. >> >> Each time I attempt to download bridges I receive the following: >> >> "Unable to download bridges: HTTP request failed". > > What happens when you try to visit https://bridges.torproject.org/ > with your (non-torified) browser? > >> Is it possible this connection is being blocked from within the >> country where I'm attempting to retrieve the bridges (Thailand) or >> perhaps from somewhere else? > > It's possible. It's just a website, and the people running your country's > firewall are already good at blocking websites when they choose to. > > Also, you should notice that the bridges given out via https tend to > get blocked earlier than the bridges given out via gmail. So if they do > block that website, it may be that the next step is to block the bridges > it gives out. > >> Of course I've been able to obtain & successfully use bridges using >> the other [documented] means of acquiring bridges but I'm left >> wondering why this connection problem is happening and if anyone else >> was having similar problems either in Thailand or elsewhere? > > A fine question. Last I heard, that website is only blocked in China. > > --Roger > > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ > *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/