[TriLUG] MS Web Host drops connecions from Linux clients

Brian Phelps brphelps at ieee.org
Tue Nov 3 13:03:39 EST 2009


On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Glenn Hennessee
<glenn.hennessee at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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

Its not a javascript issue.  I promise that is just an illusion. It has
nothing to do with user-agent or flash either.  Read my earlier posts

>
>
>
> 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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