[TriLUG] MS Web Host drops connecions from Linux clients

[Barry Gaskins]

   Another possible explaination is that the javascript on the page is
failing.  There is a ton of javascript on this site and it does a lot
of stuff intended to figure out what browser / OS you are using and it
does different stuff depending on what it thinks it found.  Maybe it
does not recognize the Linux system and tries to do something stupid
that takes a long time to fail?

   Has anyone tried loading the page on a Linux system with javascript
turned off?



On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Glenn Hennessee
<glenn.hennessee at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure that's the problem. I used the User Agent Switcher addin for FF
> to say I was IE 6 under win xp and it was still very slow to load.
> glenn
>
> Christopher L Merrill wrote:
>>
>> Lee Fickenscher wrote:
>>>
>>> Could it be due to all the asp on their site?
>>
>> It is certainly not a problem that is inherent to ASP. Most likely,
>> something
>> is looking at the User-Agent HTTP header and puking when it sees Linux.
>> It could be at the firewall, the web server, or deep in their application.
>>
>>
>
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