l.yimg.com (Yahoo!) over IPv6

Jeroen Massar jeroen at massar.ch
Mon Aug 19 18:44:38 CEST 2013


On 2013-08-19 18:42 , Gert Doering wrote:
[..]
>> For me, that page will only load in a browser which has IPv6
>> force-disabled.  Any other browser, it hangs, never displaying content,
>> even after waiting for several minutes, which leads me to wonder if
>> the Chrome and Firefox algorithms for Happy Eyeballs are not handling
>> "connects, takes request, does not reply".
> 
> Basic HE fails on this - it only handles "ensure that the connect succeeds,
> without long timeouts if one of the protocols would time out".  Dunno about
> the specific implementations in browsers.

Or that very special duck called Mac OSX which does it completely
differently from anything else out there.... (and which behavior still
cannot be disabled unfortunately)

Greets,
 Jeroen



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