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internet explorer and the RST packet. Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |

I just wanted to put this out there, because it doesn't seem widely documented with any specificity.

Internet explorer, for reasons unknown, will send a RST instead of tearing down a connection correctly.

Sometimes.

If you direct it to the root directory of a server, (http://brainproxy.com/), it seems to close the TCP connection fine.

However, if you point to a specific file, (http://brainproxy.com/somefile.txt), it will send an ACK, then a RST after the server sends its FIN packet.

Firefox, of course, gracefully closes the connection, per the RFC.

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