I think Wikipedia hates me
Over the past few days, I have been unable to load Wikipedia. Wikipedia is running fine according to website uptime services and I can use search engines, read news articles and watch videos.
Running a test curl hangs on my home ISP:
curl "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" -v
* Trying 185.15.59.224:443...
* Connected to en.wikipedia.org (185.15.59.224) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN: offers h2
* ALPN: offers http/1.1
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
* CApath: none
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
But when I connect to a VPN in my home country, the server instantly responds:
curl "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" -v
* Trying 185.15.59.224:443...
* Connected to en.wikipedia.org (185.15.59.224) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN: offers h2
* ALPN: offers http/1.1
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
* CApath: none
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256
* ALPN: server accepted h2
* Server certificate:
* subject: C=US; ST=California; L=San Francisco; O=Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.; CN=*.wikipedia.org
* start date: Oct 18 00:00:00 2023 GMT
* expire date: Oct 16 23:59:59 2024 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "en.wikipedia.org" matched cert's "*.wikipedia.org"
* issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; CN=DigiCert TLS Hybrid ECC SHA384 2020 CA1
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multiplexing
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* h2h3 [:method: GET]
* h2h3 [:path: /wiki/]
* h2h3 [:scheme: https]
* h2h3 [:authority: en.wikipedia.org]
* h2h3 [user-agent: curl/7.86.0]
* h2h3 [accept: */*]
* Using Stream ID: 1
> GET /wiki/ HTTP/2
> Host: en.wikipedia.org
> user-agent: curl/7.86.0
> accept: */*
>
< HTTP/2 301
...
Well, I have never experienced something like this before online. It's left me confused. Did I breach some kind of rate limit? Did someone buy a new Wikipedia-addicted smart fridge that I don't know about?
Anyway, I'm off to find a Wikipedia mirror.