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  1. Funny, though... about that "teaser site"... on Microsoft's "Mojave Experiment" Teaser Site Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Netcraft claims that mojaveexperiment.com is running on Linux and Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS). If you generate a 403 error, and look at the HTML, you see this:
    - Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a clever new
    - "feature" to Internet Explorer. If the text of
    - an error's message is "too small", specifically
    - less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer returns
    - its own error message. You can turn that off,
    - but it's pretty tricky to find switch called
    - "smart error messages". That means, of course,
    - that short error messages are censored by default.
    - IIS always returns error messages that are long
    - enough to make Internet Explorer happy. The
    - workaround is pretty simple: pad the error
    - message with a big comment like this to push it
    - over the five hundred and twelve bytes minimum.
    - Of course, that's exactly what you're reading
    - right now.
    This blog post includes a message that is remarkably similar, but different enough to be reworded for some reason. The wording of the message alone indicates that this is not served by IIS.