Re: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov

[Dan Renner <dan () losangelescomputerhelp com>]

Funny!  This type of responce is due to this list being called "funsec"
- correct?  ;-)
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Dan Renner
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On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 12:09 -0600, funsec-request () linuxbox org wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:53:09 -0500
> From: TheGesus <thegesus () gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [funsec] Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
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> 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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