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2MB of null could be a bug somewhere with compression or decompression



just to test this theory I used tamper data with firefox to remove the Accept-Encoding header and I received ~ 100kb page back and with the Accept-Encoding header present I received ~ 30 kb page but the 30 kb page also had the 2 million null characters. I assume microsoft has a bug in their gzip library or possibly firefox/opera have a bug in theirs.


are you the original author? what url are you using taht shows the null characters?


just go here: https://skydrive.live.com/ and login. it's the first page after you login.


ok, thanks. so i had tried that. at least on chrome/linux, for me, it's not showing the nulls. at least, i can't see them in view source and saving to a file gives:

    > wc /tmp/skydrive.html 
    310   4068 128404 /tmp/skydrive.html
similarly with firefox.


Looks like it is fixed now for me too.




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