[Nottingham] strange problem with apache webserver

[SkArcher]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:53:59 -0000, Steve Bridges 
<steve.bridges at hosteurope.com> wrote:

>> I cant access http://ah.homelinux.com/~monkey/buttons/  (a
>> folder in one of my
>> hostee's websites.
>
> Just to rule out the simple but easy to overlook possibility first, have
> you got a porn blocking proxy set up?
>
> At one place where I worked, the sysadmin installed a proxy with
> blocking turned on, and shortly after, we found that some images on
> sites we'd designed worked fine internally but on the hosting site they
> were broken. After much puzzling, we figured out that the buttons were
> being blocked by the proxy, since they had names like 'info_butt.gif'
> and it blocked it due to the word 'butt' in the image name.
>

That sounds very similar to the urban legend about Scunthorpe country 
council...

SkArcher