RE: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

Yeah, go back to Russia!

But in the meantime, I just made a web page
(http://www.larryseltzer.com/whtest.html) which references every graphic
listed on the whitehouse.gov site, as listed by the Firefox View Page Info
feature. I see 59 of them and they're all hits.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of TheGesus
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:53 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov

Why do you hate America?

On 12/27/05, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's another problem I just noticed with my packet sniffer at the 
> Whitehouse Web site.  The Whitehouse home page is referencing 9 image 
> files which don't exist on the Whitehouse server.  The server instead 
> sends back a 19K byte 404 error page for each image file.  The missing 
> image problem seems to exist on other Web pages at the Whitehouse site 
> also.  Since none of these error pages get cached, 190K bytes of junk 
> is being continuously sent to visitors as they go through the 
> Whitehouse Web site.  This is no big deal for folks with broadband 
> connections, but it dramatically increases the amount of data being 
> sent to someone on a dialup connection which typically works only at 
> 5K bytes per second.  Without any 404 errors, a Whitehouse Web page should
only by 10K to 30K bytes in size.
> Richard M. Smith
> http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
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