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Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior



Gordon Paynter <gordon.paynter@ucr.edu> writes:

> I've been noticing this for awhile (Moz 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5) and I
> found yesterday from the nice mozilla folks on IRC that this is a
> known falut with junkbuster.
> 
> Apparently, junkbuster doesn't handle HTTP 1.1 connections and "keep
> alive" connections, and generally plays fast and loose with HTTP
> standards.  They recommended replacing it, perhaps with webwasher,
> though it looks like webwasher is restrictively licensed.

wwwoffle, although a web cache, does at least some of what junkbuster
does.

-- 
Keith Willoughby
"One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. 
Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear
before they could speak to a human counselor" - Practice of Programming



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