Wierd networking.

[Julian Elischer]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> I have been looking at the following snippet of packets (under FreeBSD 
> 6.1).
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> This makes IE7 fail (but not IE6) with a generic error.
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> We see lots of strange things here.. (like, why does the RST
> go to a different sequence number?)

figured that one out... it's using the latest ACK value from the client..


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> What we are having problems with is:
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> What SHOULD the server be doing in response to the extra 2 bytes
> it receives after it has sent the FIN?
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> I would LIKE to be able to make this work, but I don't personally
> have the influence to fix IE7 so I'm left to do what I can on the server 
> (port 3128)  end.
> 
> The FIN from the server is generated when the server closes the socket.

note: IE7 never sends a FIN.  (IE6 does)

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