[TriLUG] MS Web Host drops connecions from Linux clients

[Brian Phelps]

Haven't heard back at all since I posted his last response.  I sent this to
him this morning:


> Abdel,
> I was wondering if you happened to figure out what the bug is in your web
> server/firewall that is causing problems with non-Microsoft operating
> systems.  I have not heard back from you on this and I would like to know
> where this issue rests, and if you are still working on a fix for this bug.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
> Ubuntu 9.10 here.  Tried site with no modifications and wouldn't load (or
> was taking a very long time).
>
> Changed user agent to IE7 and i got the page up except for the residential
> image on the LH side, and the 'government' and 'entertainment' images below.
>
> so strange.
>
> Someone wget their entire site, host it on apache and see what happens. :)
>
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