[e2e] RFI: Microsoft accused of TCP standards violation

[Jianping Pan]

It is interesting that we observed the similar behavior
for Netscape Browsers with an Apache Web server. See the
attached tcpdump and httpd.log for reference. It was
done a bit long ago and I do not have their software 
version numbers handy now. Might be able to dig more.

Initially we thought it might be a bug in Netscape. Now
seems that it was *designed* to compete Microsoft's IE 
with Microsoft's IIS.


Best regards,

Jianping

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c [16:29:53] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 2180 "-" 
"Mozilla/4.5 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u)"

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c [16:33:42] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 304 - "-" 
"Mozilla/4.5 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u)"