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title: Collateral Freedom
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Collateral freedom is an anti-censorship strategy that attempts to make it **economically prohibitive** for censors to
block a resource.
The diverse needs of businesses to exchange information across international borders makes it impossible to build a
catalogue of "good" and "bad" networks or websites.
A censor requires some confidence when they block a resource that it won't be affecting economic activity.
Its difficult to achieve accuracy with filtering as most internet traffic is encrypted and must be categorised
at speed to make blocking decisions.
As a result, censors will usually err on the side of under-blocking.
One way to exploit this is by deploying solutions in large platforms that are **“too big to block”**, like public cloud
providers.
Public cloud providers host large numbers of clients in shared infrastructure to benefit from economies of scale, but
this sharing also makes it difficult to know what content is being accessed.
Similarly, large social networks host content from large numbers of publishers but all traffic between the user and the
social network is typically encrypted and so the censor cannot know what is being read.
Blocking the cloud provider would have a negative impact on businesses and would hurt state revenue, and blocking the
social media platform would cause backlash from the people: neither is an attractive option for the censor.
Another approach is to use constantly rotating identifiers, as even where a resource may be easy to block once
identified, a new resource can be deployed quickly to replace it rendering the blocks ineffective.
Due to erring on the side of under-blocking, attempts to access previously unseen content usually succeed.
Even with a procedure for screening or approval, blocking by default would bog down innovation and development to the
extent that it could cease, certainly falling behind other economies.
This approach is particularly suited for news media where the majority of readers will be interested in an article for
only a short time after it is published, and if it is later blocked by the censor then the effect will be minimal.
With collateral freedom on your side **you can have the upper hand** when it comes to making your content accessible to
your audience.

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# Documentation Overview
:::warning[Under construction]
This documentation is a work in progress. Please [get in touch with us](mailto:help@cdr.link) if you have any questions.
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This documentation is a work in progress. Please [get in touch with us](mailto:contact@sr2.uk) if you have any questions.
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# Hosted CDR Link FAQ

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# Documentation Overview
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This documentation is a work in progress. Please [get in touch with us](mailto:contact@sr2.uk) if you have any questions.
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title: Web Mirrors
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A web mirror can help users by providing alternate URLs to access censored resources, allowing them to bypass censorship
and access information that may be otherwise blocked.
Web mirrors work by forwarding requests to the original website, and providing a different URL to access that content.
Dynamic web mirrors use frequently changing URLs to evade censorship, making it more difficult for censors to maintain
blocks for the content.
This assumption of a limited lifetime is built-in to the system, allowing for automated block detection to trigger the
deployment of new URLs, and for the new URLs to be made available via the portal, the API, and via dead drops.
Named web mirrors use alternative domain names with limited distribution to evade censorship.
By blending with the "long tail" of web traffic, it may take longer for these mirrors to be discovered.
Web mirrors can be accessed via a normal web browser, making them easily accessible to users without requiring any
special software or technical knowledge.
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<img src="/img/mirrors/overview.png" style={{"max-width": "100%", "max-height": "500px"}} />
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The jasima.app portal overview for web mirrors
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title: Troubleshooting
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We have collected solutions to common issued faced by web mirrors users.
If you are unable to resolve your issue, please [get in touch](/contact) with us to discuss the options.
## Upstream Rate Limiting
CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) can impose rate limiting or "bot detection" on websites to ensure that the network
resources are efficiently utilized, to protect the websites from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, and to
maintain the quality of service for all the websites using the CDN.
If you find that mirrors are producing many “Rate Limited Exceeded” or “Access Denied” errors then you may be suffering
from this problem.
These rate limits will be sized according to the expected rate of requests from an average user, however the mirror
system is a bottleneck that aggregates requests from multiple users and passes these on to the original CDN.
When a single system is used to send a large number of requests to a CDN like this, the CDN may interpret this as a
DoS attack and prevent access to the website.
The optimal approach is to configure the origin to use an alternative host for connections, so that the CDN is bypassed
and the backend origin (web server) is used directly.
The mirror will still be the access point for users and this will not reveal the location of the backend origin to your
users.
If this is not possible, then deploying mirrors for websites hosted on CDNs will require either configuration at, or
co-operation from, the CDN provider.
Additional headers can be configured for the origin to authenticate requests that originate from jasima.app, and these
can be used to bypass the protection mechanisms at your CDN.
Consult your CDN's documentation or contact their support team to configure using an additional header to disable the
rate limiting for requests originating from jasima.app.