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Linonut wrote:
> * ed peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> The *ONLY* thing I can think that IIS has on it's side is the HTTP SYN
>> abuse between IE <-> IIS to skip the TCP hand shake.
>>
>> http://s5h.net/u?c6
>
> That's old (2002). Still funny, though:
>
> But IE to non-IIS servers waste a packet at the beginning of each
> request-- and depending on how the server handles that illegal
> request, it might immediately RST it, or it might just time out...
> which would make the browser seem infuriatingly slow to connect to
> new websites.
>
> This is only marginally less stupid than RunTCP's "solution"-- and I
> say "marginally" only because in the grand scheme of things, this
> probably makes sense to Microsoft's network engineers. After all,
> eventually all clients will be Windows platforms running IE, and all
> servers will be Windows platforms running IIS. And then we can break
> all kinds of rules! Rules are only there to hold us back and force us
> to play nice with other vendors. Well, once the other vendors are all
> gone, who cares about some stupid RFC?
>
> I have to admire their arrogance and their confidence. But it'll be
> some time before I can bring myself to admire their technical
> integrity.
What's stupid though is that as far as I know, things have not changed.
They'd sacrifice their user experience for their own (marginal) gains.
- --
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