[Tech] Akamai

[Mr. Flibble]

> 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.