I mean, what the hell? This is from India:
"The website has been blocked as per order of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000."
Why has the Indian govt blocked this website?
"The website has been blocked as per order of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000."
Why has the Indian govt blocked this website?
(For anyone reading from outside India, yes, the government blocks a lot of websites, different internet providers seem to implement different lists, and nobody afaik knows what the actual official list is - or maybe there isn't one, just general instructions from the government about what sort of websites to block, hence the variance.)
Maybe the way they implement it is if the domain is first visited by their user, it is put in a queue to review if it's compliant?
That wouldn't be affected by HTTPS at all.
This is what curling the output gave me earlier: https://pastebin.com/Ae5DMn04 , Now the site has mysteriously started working.
This should only be possible if the request is being intercepted somewhere between Cloudflare's server (which might have a unicast location in India) and the actual server that might be happening over HTTP, which is a serious issue! This would also explain why it works sometimes and fails the other times. But that won't explain why it shows my ISP in the blocked message.
To further support this theory, Wireshark showed nothing weird in the TLS exchange, So it either suggests my ISP has cracked encryption (unlikely) or the link between cloudflare middleboxes and the "Internet" should be treated as insecure.