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

[Chris Merrill]

Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:
> On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
>> This is no coincidence. I's just a break of TCP's RFC. See it here:
>> http://grotto11.com/blog/?+1039831658
> 
> I think this needs to be confirmed before this is accepted as reality. I 
> work with browsers all of the time at the HTTP protocol level and 
> haven't seen the behavior as described.

As described, that is at the TCP/IP level (in establishing a socket).
This is all complete by the time the socket is considered "opened",
right?  I would think this is well beneath the HTTP or socket layer
and would, therefore, be unobservable from the socket or HTTP level.

Chris


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