Using proxies to access LL information by llHttpRequest

I have seen several objects around on the grid which access information that could only be obtained from LL sites using llHTTPRequest. Presumably this is being done using a proxy web site.

I would like a clarification on this issue: either LL intend scripts to be able to access that information, or they do not. I presume that you do not, because if you did, you would have allowed llHTTPRequest to access the site directly. Given that, surely any access to this information via llHTTPRequest (or via remote readers which call back through XML-RPC, etc..) should be disallowed, regardless of how it is routed.

Please let me know: is access to information unique to the LL website (such as account profiles, online user counts and L$ exchange rate) forbidden, and if it is not, why is llHTTPRequest restricted from accessing it directly? Although I know that technically blocking any access that's been re-routed enough times is impossible, it would still be possible for users to AR any in-world object that is clearly depending on that information to work.

I'm inquiring about this one--

If you can get the information from the web site, then you are free to get it with a proxy and relay the information back to your objects in world via llHTTPRequest (or XML-PRC or e-mail).

That you cannot get that information directly via llHTTPRequest is an unfortunate consequence of our internal network architecture. On the other hand, since scraping HTML isn't really a job suited to LSL, proxying it is probably better anyway.