[TriLUG] MS Web Host drops connecions from Linux clients

[Glenn Hennessee]

I just did that and the page loads much quicker with javascript turned 
off but there are no menus which means they are entirely javascript. It 
may a case of bad javascript which causes the slow loading with linux.
glenn


Barry Gaskins wrote:
>    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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Glenn Hennessee
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