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[Bug 506780] China - eclipse page (and download) is suspended for several minutes over blocking use of google.com service

Bugzilla Link 506780
Status NEW
Importance P3 normal
Reported Oct 31, 2016 05:42 EDT
Modified Sep 25, 2021 06:58 EDT
Reporter Paul Verest

Description

There is no Google services in China.
Any blocking (not asynch) load from google.com will block page load for several minutes until browser timeout.

Right now page https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/oomph/epp/neon/R1/eclipse-inst-win64.exe&mirror_id=448 that is main Eclipse download page waits for several minutes, before download starts.

Previously raised Bug 437568 - https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ can't load was: Relying on Google CDN makes eclipse.org site up to 1 minute to open in China