Hong Xu wrote:
> >> I noticed that vim website now uses something from google. However,
> >> google is often blocked in China, and when google is blocked, vim
> >> website also becomes inaccessible (when opening the vim website, the
> >> status bar of firefox always says "connecting to www.google.com", but
> >> the page is not completely shown). I don't know much about web things,
> >> but could this be fixed?
> >
> > Has this started a few weeks ago? That could be the +1 button.
> >
> > If you can load the page itself, then it should show up, perhaps with a
> > few parts not filled in. I can't imagine how part of the page could be
> > missing. Can you fetch the HTML with wget and look at it?
> >
>
> Yes, this problem started a few weeks ago, and I just ignored it before.
>
> In fact, the page will finally be loaded completely, but it won't
> complete if Google is in a blocked state. See an example here:
>
>
>
> |---------------------------| Google blocked state
> |---------------------| Visit state
> 0min 1min 5min
>
> Google is blocked at 0 min, and I started to visit vim.org at 1 min.
> Then I have to wait until 5min, when Google is unblocked by the GFW (the
> Great Fire Wall, which causes Google to be blocked often). Since Google
> is not always blocked, I can visit vim.org normally at most time (it's
> not that "most", about 20% of the time Google is blocked here) when
> Google is not blocked.
>
> As shown above, the problem is, is it possible for me, and other vim
> fans from P.R.China, to always access vim.org normally without disabling
> the Google features?
Did you try blocking just apis.google.com? Most things still work then.
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