[Gllug] Mozilla fails on ASP sites

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:00:15AM +0100, Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:
> Ian <bredroll at darkspace.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > viewing a page from an asp server is the same as viewing one from a
> perl 
> > based cgi server or php.
> 
> Actually, as I recall, there are some nefarious goings on between MS
> Internet Explorer and MS Internet Information Server (which most .asp
> pages are served up from). I can't remember the details, but it was
> something along the lines of a non-standard 'handshaking' protocol which
> makes other browsers appear much slower.

I'm afraid to say that this claim was wrong. The person who made it
just hadn't understood the TCP protocol properly, and of course
Slashdot reported it verbatim.

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/05/2025254.shtml?tid=113

Rich.

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