There have probably been more 1 off servers written in the period of 1993 to 2000 than in the past three years. If you never encounter one of those older server

There have probably been more 1 off servers written in the period of 1993 to 2000 than in the past three years. If you never encounter one of those older servers, consider yourselves lucky. If you expect to support every server out here, including the ones attached to crapoy webcams and toaster ovens, then you should be prepared for exact what the OP is talking about. I don't mean to pick on your response, but there have been a lot of comments in this thread that amounts to "it's not that hard", when the reality is quite different. And when proxies come in to play, the matrix of pain is multiplied.