proletarius101 created an issue #560:
Summary
Accessing it from Hong Kong or Taiwan will redirect you to mirrors located in China (e.g. mirrors.ustc.edu.cn), which is hard to access (and they are even effectively blocking access outside China, probably by GFW).
Steps to reproduce
e.g. Access https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json from Taiwan or Hong Kong. I use ProtonVPN to test.
What is the current bug behavior?
It's effectively redirected to https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json (I tested it in Firefox). And by curl:
curl https://download.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json -i
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: nginx/1.18.0
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 06:55:17 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 0
Cache-Control: private, no-cache
Link: <https://gnome.mirror.digitalpacific.com.au/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=1; geo=au
Link: <https://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=2; geo=se
Link: <https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=3; geo=dk
Link: <https://ftp.fau.de/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=4; geo=de
Link: <https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=5; geo=de
Link: <https://ftp1.nluug.nl/windowing/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=6; geo=nl
Link: <https://ftp2.nluug.nl/windowing/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=7; geo=nl
Link: <https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=8; geo=gb
Link: <https://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=9; geo=fr
Link: <https://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json>; rel=duplicate; pri=10; geo=fr
Location: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/gnome/sources/NetworkManager-iodine/cache.json
Set-Cookie: 901e43c8d43d3ebb75ca0f4df009b7a1=9d7e5539dc5551dda8c4a46202d44818; path=/; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=None
```
Then, the redirected access is timeout.
### What is the expected correct behavior?
Traffic from Taiwan and Hong Kong should be redirect to local mirrors (if any) or mirrors outside China
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