WordPress.com SSL is now blocked in Iran

Thursday December 27, 2007 at 10:44 pm | In Iran, censorship, internet, web, wordpress.com |

Iranian government’s central Internet-blocking software now blocks WordPress.com SSL requests. Iranian internet users used to access blocked weblogs on WordPress.com through their HTTPS address (e.g https://blogname.wordpress.com instead of http://blogname.wordpress.com). It seems that they block all requests for WordPress.com IP’s on port 443 (port used for secure connections). Because of such restrictive method, even unblocked weblogs on WordPress.com can not be accessed through SSL.

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  1. Did’t now that some countrys “block” things like that.. Any more country doin stuff like Iran???

    Comment by houserocker — Monday January 14, 2008 #

  2. does the ban concerns the whole wordpress.com platform or only specific blogs the service hosts?

    try this workaround:

    http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/23/wordpress-wordprexy/

    thank

    Comment by sami Ben Gharbia — Tuesday January 15, 2008 #

  3. I have never been to Iran, but have seen it in the distance from Iraq three times in my life. Here is a connection which provides links to a seven part series I posted on Iran. If you ever have the time and inclination, you might let me know what you think of it -
    http://threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.com/2008/03/changing-agenda-part-7-of-understanding.html

    Comment by Harry Barnes — Tuesday March 18, 2008 #

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