The apps aren't currently designed with network-level blocking circumvention in mind. It's certainly possible to be much more resilient especially to something simple like a DNS blacklist, but:
* anything we do starts an arms race where smarter blocking could block that too * the apps are open source, so it's very easy to check how they work and then design a fancier block * such efforts might affect legal cases (IANAL) -- brion On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> wrote: > Surely it should be possible to have a more resilient access to Wikipedia > content in the app than most vanilla browsers provide? > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017, 13:40 Florian Schmidt < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Because the app uses the same base URL for the requests to Wikipedia as > > other access methods (e.g. internet browsers), a block a Wikipedia would > > apply to the App, too. Sorry, but there's no way to work around this, if > a > > block is implemented to block all requests to a specific domain. One > > workaround on the client side would be to use a VPN, so that the request > > will be made from another origin and the answer forwarded to your > > phone/computer. However, I'm not sure, if this is allowed in any way. > > > > Best, > > Florian > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Wikitech-l [mailto:[email protected]] Im > > Auftrag von Denny Vrandecic > > Gesendet: Samstag, 29. April 2017 21:16 > > An: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > > Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Turkey ban > > > > Does it also affect the app? > > > > If so, why, and can we circumvent that? > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
