ARTICLE: What makes IE so fast (or slow)?

[ZeroOne]

I just found this rather interesting article about how M$ rapes standards again, this time the TCP-itself..: http://pix.cs.olemiss.edu/csci561/slash.html Here's a quote from the text:

We noticed that when you entered a URL in Internet Explorer 5, its sequence of startup packets didn't look like the one shown above. Instead, it looked like this:

Client                        Server
1. Request ->                 Uh... what? Dunno what the hell this is. I'll ignore it, or RST.
2. Oh, you're a standard 
   server. Okay: SYN ->
3.                            <- SYN/ACK
4. ACK ->
5. Request ->

[Jupes]

Yer IE only gets to cheat with MS servers though. Bring on Linux servers!