[CLUE-Tech] slashdot images blocked?

[Angelo Bertolli]

> 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?

Yes we are behind a linksys "router" (NAT) on DSL.  I can assure you that 
I'm the only one who ever goes on slashdot ;)  And other web pages come up 
fine too.

>> 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? ;-)
>

Good point.  Playing fairly on the internet is important.  If this is how 
Opera is faster, then it's only faster at the expense of other Internet 
users (good thing Apache is default set to max 2 connections per user). 
Think of how nicely TCP plays with itself until someone tweaks their 
implementation a little bit to not back off when there is a lot of 
traffic.

Angelo