Extremely slow web page loading to only 1 site ?

[Sam Sharpe]

On 9 February 2010 00:12, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 19:08 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:58:39 -0800
>> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>>
>> > Confirmed
>> > Very interesting problem, indeed
>>
>> An awful lot of web sites check the user agent and load
>> completely different content and/or redirect to different
>> servers. You'd have to do something like get a tcpdump
>> to compare what content was being fetched to see if it
>> is really displaying the same exact web content or not.
>
> For me its slow with Konqueror too.
>
> It loads instantly with Firefox on Vista and slow with Firefox on Linux.
>
> "time curl rv.net > /dev/null" is browser independent, isn't it ?

No, it's dependent on how the site treats "curl" as a browser.

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Sam