Questions tagged [firewall]
Firewalls at home, work, or government firewalls that restrict viewing particular websites.
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Have an option to permanently switch to the jQuery fallback across all SE sites
Every SE site loads script from https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js. Unfortunately, the majority of Google's domains, including ajax.googleapis.com, are blocked by GFW.
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Chat room appears as text only without any styling
Most of the chat rooms I join appear to me as text only without any styling. Is this because of my company firewall?
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Is Stack Exchange blocked in/by Russia?
Stack Exchange recently announced that they are not blocking Russia. However, is the converse also true—that Russia is not blocking Stack Exchange?
(I'm asking this because if Russia is not blocking ...
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Cannot see image on stackstatus.net in environments where Tumblr is blocked [closed]
On stackstatus.net, the image is invalid on the right part of the screen. You should update the image so it shows.
My school's firewall blocks Tumblr. Maybe you could make it so stack exchange hosts ...
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What IP addresses and ports are required for firewall exceptions for Stack Overflow sites? [duplicate]
While using the Stack Exchange sites, image uploading is restricted in my office by default and I need to request an exception to interact with Stack Exchange sites (i.e., post questions answers with ...
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Is the Stack Exchange Network blocked in China?
I'm going to China soon, so I want to know whether the Stack Exchange Network is being blocked in China.
A lot of useful and great websites are blocked in China, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, ...
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Using Google CDN to load scripts gives poor user experience in China [duplicate]
Here in China, pretty much everything by Google is blocked by the government. If you request anything from a Google domain, it will give the appearance of loading for a while and then give back a DNS ...
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How to open access to stackoverflow? [duplicate]
I'm working in closed network at the moment. To obtain access to some work related sites I should ask administrator to add some records in firewall.
f.e. I need an access to *microsoft.com/* via http &...
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Stack Exchange blocked by EE - Adult content
I fired up Stack Exchange on my mobile today and got this:
EE is an ISP and mobile operator in the UK.
This is happening for stackexchange.com and all subdomains, but not SO. It is not affecting the ...
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Kaspersky identifying /posts/popup/anon-vote as phishing
I tried to upvote the below question before hitting refresh, so I got the anonymous vote popup - but Kaspersky blocks it:
After allowing it:
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HTTPS Problem when accessing Stack Overflow in China
I don't know if this is 100% true, but I live in China, and I now require a VPN to access Stack Overflow. It seems like the following files aren't loading in China. The index page itself is loading, ...
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What on this question could be triggering WebSense?
Objectives
Hopefully someone can provide an answer or clue of some sort
Notify the StackOverflow community of a possible issue
Background
I was doing some research on a Visual Basic in InfoPath issue ...
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Human verification page not loading in China
I was trying to post a question on Stackoverflow but got redirected to the Human Verification page. The problem is that the CAPTCHA never loads here in China, it just times out after 4 minutes. ...
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Meta.Programmers is blocked by WebSense for "Uncategorized"
It actually appears that Meta.*.stackexchange.com is, but Meta.StackOverflow is not.
In a previous discussion about the blocking of Chat by WebSense, it looks like there's not much Stack Exchange ...
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How to avoid that flag post shows “Unable to load popup - please try again” with privoxy enabled?
Privoxy is blocking my request when I try to flag a post on Stack Exchange sites. Does anyone know how to set it up to avoid that?
Similar to “Unable to load popup” when trying to flag posts, but the ...
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