[TriLUG] Why IExplorer is (sometimes) so fast?

[Jon Carnes]

NBD.  It only affects IE clients on Apache servers (well... any non-IIS
server), and then it's only a problem if the server is set to drop
non-synchronized packets, which you're not going to do if you are
following the RFC's...

Jon

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 09:02, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> All,
> 
> I guess that you have seen IExplorer be incredibly fast... at least sometimes. 
> 
> This is no coincidence. I's just a break of TCP's RFC. See it here:
> 
> http://grotto11.com/blog/?+1039831658
> 
> I woder why I'm not surprised...
> 
> Now, how about making Apache do something similar with Mozilla? Or stablish a 
> bogus-TCP (IExplorer) identifier, so IExplorer gets a 404 20% of the time, 
> like some kind of RFC's police ... Then, IExplorer users will get a degraded 
> performance. If they play the game, we all can...
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
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