[TriLUG] Why IExplorer is (sometimes) so fast?

Greg Brown gregbrown at mindspring.com
Mon Jan 6 11:25:42 EST 2003


I thought it was because of the SSTS protocol imbedded into every M$ 
system.  Never heard of it?  It's the Sold Soul to Satan protocol.  
It's mentioned in the M$ EULA.



On Monday, Jan 6, 2003, at 09:02 America/New_York, Sinner from the 
Prairy wrote:

> All,
>
> I guess that you have seen IExplorer be incredibly fast... at least 
> sometimes.
>
> This is no coincidence. I's just a break of TCP's RFC. See it here:
>
> http://grotto11.com/blog/?+1039831658
>
> I woder why I'm not surprised...
>
> Now, how about making Apache do something similar with Mozilla? Or 
> stablish a
> bogus-TCP (IExplorer) identifier, so IExplorer gets a 404 20% of the 
> time,
> like some kind of RFC's police ... Then, IExplorer users will get a 
> degraded
> performance. If they play the game, we all can...
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
> -- 
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