Selling a virtual website without allocating a unique IP address is fraud and will continue to be fraud for the next few years.
I suspect it is only fraud if you knowingly provide someone with a service that is not going to work the way you said in your sales pitch. The original poster asked what the situation is with those large pseudo-ISPs that either provide their own version of browser software or force people through their own proxies, and if anyone knew when they would be "upgrading" to support the Host: (or whatever) thingy in HTTP 1.1. The question still stands... Pushing these people (by public ridicule if necessary) to move forward and help the Internet as a whole is a very valid function of this list, IMHO. Regards, -- Peter Galbavy peter@wonderland.org @ Home phone://44/973/499465 in Wonderland http://www.wonderland.org/~peter/