Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by davesque on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:36PM (#13932346)

I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt in my mind here but this is a tough one to explain away.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by adrianpike on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:38PM (#13932363)

Maybe they're injecting a brazillion polyfills if it's not a known user-agent?

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by popey456963 on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:47PM (#13932479)

100MB? Assuming they're using GZIP, that's normally a 10% compression ratio, leading to about 1GB of actual data. Let's assume this data is stored as 8 bits, that's about one hundred million characters of code! Maybe what they're doing is downloading the entirety of Windows XP (roughly a gig in size), running it in JavaScript and then rendering the page in Internet Explorer within their version of XP.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by madmulita on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:45PM (#13932458)

Yet, it works as expected without the polyfills.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by DoctorOW on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:51PM (#13932519)

Right. But he's suggesting that if they don't recognize the browser that they inject as much polyfills as they can so everything works no matter what.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by polotics on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:47PM (#13932478)

Stopped giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt in 1999, never regreted it.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by blahblah12 on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:00PM (#13934292)

lol, It wasn't nefarious read the reddit thread.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by polotics on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:02PM (#13935869)

Whatever: incompetence or foul play, doesnt matter because I'm far away.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by ErnestedCode on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:09PM (#13932721)

I'm guessing that the customer service rep has no idea what the term "User-Agent" refers to. He just saw the word "Linux" in the post and then replied with a canned response.

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