Axel Boldt wrote:
Anonymouse.org is a proxy popular with Chinese users to circumvent censorship. Unfortunately, not all Wikipedias are accessible through it. I just tried a large sample, and I found that the following do *not* work: ja, ko, zh, mr, th. What happens is that anonymouse redirects the main page of these Wikipedias back to the main page, resulting in an infinite loop.
The brokenness of zh is of particular concern, for obvious reasons.
It might be a unicode issue, but ar, he, ru all work fine. I doubt that is is a bug in anonymouse that affects only certain unicode characters.
I can load pages with Latin names, so that probably actually is the case:
http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki...
Further testing... Try putting in: http://test.leuksman.com/view/%E7%BB%B4%E5%9F%BA%E7%99%BE%E7%A7%91
it redirects to: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://test.leuksman.com/view/%E7...
which redirects to: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://test.leuksman.com/view/
which redirects to: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://test.leuksman.com/view/Mai...
Probably somewhere along the line it's stripping the Chinese characters, or misconverting them into question marks (?). If you go to http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/, this will put you into an infinite loop trying to load the main page at its canonical URL.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)