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Re: [tor-talk] Iranian users cannot download Orbot from Google play store




Collin Anderson <collin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>It seems I was wrong about the initial request for the apk being HTTPS,
>however, this is a general issue with the Play Store and not Orbot
>specific
>I believe. Here is the transaction in question.
>
>GET
>/market/download/Download?packageName=org.thoughtcrime.securesms&versionCode=56&token=AOTCm0QNlhXjrw5kiahs1Onr7JlVKsem-_ZcCnF9J5dy3DOKlIZ9_aVCTOMJgrFcqEMYF4Q0p9sHOHy2w7yvTF826bOBds9reMaPjU2ln94&downloadId=4767185409281152338
>HTTP/1.1
>Cookie: MarketDA=09494618516075014141
>Host: android.clients.google.com
>Connection: Keep-Alive
>User-Agent: AndroidDownloadManager/4.2.2 (Linux; U; Android 4.2.2;
>skz_tenderloin Build/JDQ39E)
>
>HTTP/1.1 403 Access is forbidden.
>Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
>Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 06:19:05 GMT
>Expires: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 06:19:05 GMT
>Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
>X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
>X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
>X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
>Server: GSE
>Alternate-Protocol: 80:quic
>Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>
>a3
><HTML>
><HEAD>
><TITLE>Access is forbidden.</TITLE>
></HEAD>
><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
><H1>Access is forbidden.</H1>
><H2>Error 403</H2>
></BODY>
></HTML>
>
>0
>
>By the way, this is what government blocking looks like (different from
>above):
>
><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
>charset=windows-1256"><title>M6-8
></title></head><body><iframe
>src="http://10.10.34.34?type=Invalid<http://10.10.34.34/?type=Invalid>
>Site&policy=MainPolicy
>" style="width: 100%; height: 100%" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0"
>marginheight="0" frameborder="0" vspace="0"
>hspace="0"></iframe></body></html>
>
>I offered the people I knew at Google a shell, if there is any other
>Google
>engineer that would be the proper person to connect with, feel free to
>put
>them in touch.

Are all APK downloads blocked with the 403, or just some? Curious to figure out what the app black/whitelist looks like, and how it is bring done.

Is the shell you have on an actual Android device in Iran?
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