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RE: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov
From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:16:26 -0500
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 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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Current thread:
- Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Richard M. Smith (Dec 27)
- Re: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov TheGesus (Dec 27)
- RE: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Larry Seltzer (Dec 27)
- RE: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Richard M. Smith (Dec 27)
- RE: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Larry Seltzer (Dec 27)
- RE: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Richard M. Smith (Dec 27)
- RE: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Larry Seltzer (Dec 27)
- RE: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Richard M. Smith (Dec 27)
- RE: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Larry Seltzer (Dec 27)
- Re: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov TheGesus (Dec 27)
- Re: Re[2]: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Gadi Evron (Dec 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Dan Renner (Dec 27)
- Re: Yet another problem at whitehouse.gov Fergie (Dec 27)
- Diebold Dies Larry Seltzer (Dec 27)