Re: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov

[Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij () ie ymp gov>]

Spelling HTML with a K are we?

(that was an obscure tick reference for those who didn't get it)

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, TheGesus wrote:

> 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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