Mr. Flibble wrote: > He mentioned that a website of ours was getting blocked in china. > It was blocked either because we linked to a page that mentioned sex, or we > had the word sex on one of our pages. > Anyway, he said that using akamai caching got round this.
If the filtering is based on IP address, that would make sense - blocking an Akamai cache would cause a lot of collateral damage to unrelated sites. I believe the Chinese firewall also resets TCP connections if certain keywords are detected, but maybe the word sex doesn't have a high enough priority to get onto that particular blacklist. Try putting Falun Gong on one of your pages and see if it still gets through. :-) Or maybe Akamai delivers the data to its caches inside China in a compressed or encrypted form, unintentionally circumventing the RST filter as well as the IP filter? Cheers, Michael
