My Browser Builds (Part 5)

[VistaLover]

7 minutes ago, roytam1 said:

you may find some free web proxies to access my site

... Sadly, I suspect those have been blocked even before ALL the free "VPNs"; Putin  doesn't like to leave loopholes  , does he? ...

[VistaLover]

53 minutes ago, Egorkaru said:

Cloudflare is blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor.

38 minutes ago, roytam1 said:

I can't remove cloudflare here

@Egorkaru. can you not access the PLAIN HTTP version of 

http://o.rthost.win/

(obviously, on a browser that doesn't enforce HTTPS) ?

I found some relevant issues in the Supermium issue tracker: 

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1485

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/997

and, possibly, 

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1005

@roytam1, it appears you have ECH enabled: 

https://dns.google/resolve?name=o.rthost.win&type=HTTPS

perhaps disabling it could restore access in Russia ? 

Edited 3 hours ago by VistaLover

[roytam1]

36 minutes ago, VistaLover said:

@Egorkaru. can you not access the PLAIN HTTP version of 

http://o.rthost.win/

(obviously, on a browser that doesn't enforce HTTPS) ?

I found some relevant issues in the Supermium issue tracker: 

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1485

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/997

and, possibly, 

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1005

@roytam1, it appears you have ECH enabled: 

https://dns.google/resolve?name=o.rthost.win&type=HTTPS

perhaps disabling it could restore access in Russia ? 

IIRC there is no sophisticated settings about HTTPS in cloudflare free-tier so I have no control about ECH.

[Egorkaru]

1 hour ago, VistaLover said:

can you not access the PLAIN HTTP version of 

http://o.rthost.win/

(obviously, on a browser that doesn't enforce HTTPS) ?

Opening website http://o.rthost.win over an unsecured HTTP connection was also interrupted after the first 16 KB. I tested in the r3dfox browser under Windows 10 (x64).

[Egorkaru]

basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20260117-3219d2d-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod crashes when opening https://vk.com:

[roytam1]

5 minutes ago, Egorkaru said:

basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20260117-3219d2d-uxp-aace8fa8c0-xpmod crashes when opening https://vk.com:

VK crash is known even in upstream, so far there is no solution or workaround. better using chrome-based browser for this.

[VistaLover]

1 hour ago, roytam1 said:

IIRC there is no sophisticated settings about HTTPS in cloudflare free-tier

The article I linked to, 

https://habr.com/ru/articles/856602/

is, supposedly, intended for free-tier users, with an addition in the end "For paid CloudFlare users"  ; but I'm not sure disabling ECH works anymore, as this statement from June 2025 indicates: 

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1485#issue-3189002561

Quote

Now even disabling Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) does not help.

 ...

[VistaLover]

1 hour ago, Egorkaru said:

I tested in the r3dfox browser under Windows 10 (x64).

r3dfox (and firefox) will still upgrade the connection to HTTPS, even if the relevant setting, HTTPS-Only Mode, under "about:preferences#privacy", has been manually set to "Don’t enable HTTPS-Only Mode"  ...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-upgrades

I had to first enable HTTPS-Only Mode in all windows, and then configure an exception just for "o.rthost.win" ...