I downloaded to take a look at the source, they do things that are similar to us actually, and they do have lots of great special case handling that we might us

I downloaded to take a look at the source, they do things that are similar to us actually, and they do have lots of great special case handling that we might use for reference later. One crazy thing that we do that isn't done here is the storage of cookies, we actually temporarily store cookies on the server side so that we can do fancy things with it -- sending around the shopping cart, transfer of shopping state etc. However, if you've tried using it, you'll notice that it isn't perfect either... they show slashdot.org as an example, but lots of things are broken on it. Most of the javascript stuff doesn't work. Slashdot was a javascript light site a year ago, but now they use tons of fancy javascript like most sites. Their cookie support also seems to be broken -- not sure why. Although I will admit that James did quite a bit of amazing work in just 12k lines of perl code. The perl code is pretty decent too. It's easy to get a proxy that works on 95% of the code, all the hard stuff is in that last 5% -- that's what we spent most of the time on :-)