In message <g3af6xr2d5.fsf@bb.rc.vix.com>, Paul Vixie writes:
If I was doing that, I would also deny service to proxy servers and display a nice message telling the user to remove the proxy or bitch about its forced use.
Playboy.COM did something like that to @Home last year for a similar reason.
Who won? My bet is @Home. The cache operater has a relationship with the customer, and can more easily "explain" that the content site is broken. I still find it very hard to believe and content provider of significance would deliberately break proxies, when the proxies do not prevent them from doing anything they really need to do (maybe make it a little more work, but not much.) --- Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications, Inc. jerry@fc.net PO BOX 80315 Austin, Tx 78708 | 512-458-9810 http://www.fc.net