> 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. :-)
Lol, good point, although I don't know anyone in china to test this :( > 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? Good q. I think I need to find out more about this.
