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Telegram test

This test is designed to examine the reachability of Telegram’s app and web version within a tested network.

More specifically, this test attempts to perform an HTTP POST request, and establish a TCP connection to Telegram’s access points (DCs), as well as an HTTP GET request to Telegram’s web version (web.telegram.org) over the vantage point of the user. The test is triggered as blocking when connections to all access points defined in the [test] (https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/blob/master/ooni/nettests/blocking/telegram.py#L16-L22) fail.

Based on this methodology Telegram’s app is likely blocked if any of the following apply:

  • TCP connections to all the tested Telegram access points fail

  • HTTP POST requests to Telegram’s access points do not send back a response to OONI’s servers.

Telegram’s web version is likely blocked if the following applies:

  • HTTP(S) GET requests to web.telegram.org do not send back a consistent response to OONI’s servers.

Read the Telegram test specification.