[CLUE-Tech] slashdot images blocked?

[David Anselmi]

Jim Ockers wrote:
[...]
> To help you with this we might need to know what browser & version you
> are using.  I wonder if Slashdot is rejecting connections from you if
> there are too many connections at once.  As you may know some browsers
> violate the HTTP/1.1 standard of 2 (IIRC) simultaneous HTTP connections.
> In particular Opera (fastest browser on earth) makes 10 or more
> simultaneous connections, depending on user configuration.

Well, if at work he uses DSL, is it doing NAT?  Does that make all the 
users at work look like one user with many connections to slashdot? 
Does slashdot strictly enforce the HTTP/1.1 limit?

Maybe changing your browser to use HTTP/1.0 (or just changing the number 
of connections it makes, since one at least gets through) would help.

> You can hack the Windows registry so that IE makes more than the HTTP/1.1
> recommended number of connections, which dramatically speeds up IE as
> well.  (Makes it almost as fast as Opera, don't cha know.)

So you mean Opera is the fastest proprietary, non-standards compliant 
browser on earth? ;-)

Dave