dlang.org appears to be blocked in China

[Lionello Lunesu]

On 12/15/13, 12:23, Orvid King wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:55:28 -0600, Puming <zhaopuming at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 10:15:35 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
>>> ...and I'm having this D workshop tomorrow. Is there a mirror with
>>> the latest DMD binaries for all platforms?
>>>
>>> If not, I will copy the binaries over to my personal server as a temp
>>> mirror.
>>>
>>> L.
>>
>> dlang.org is slow and seems to be blocked because of the twitter part
>> in the front page. The download page is actually not blocked.
>>
>> you can access it by url: http://dlang.org/download.html
>>
>> or as I always does, by accessing the forum first, and click on the
>> Download &Tools link in the side bar.
>>
>
> You can also solve this problem more perminately on your own machine by
> simply adding pbs.twimg.com, twitter.com, platform.twitter.com, and
> cdn.syndication.twimg.com to your hosts file, and having them resolve to
> localhost.

That's a good tip.

Who knows how to do asynchronous javascript or what-do-the-kids-call-it, 
so that the page doesn't block when one script/image blocks.