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April 7, 2011

Neat little misfeature on bing.com

Search bing for 'asp content-type set' and get back (at least right now, today, 2011-04-07 17:39:55+00:00) something very strange.

Basically:

[jbaltz@3phase ~]$ curl  'http://www.bing.com/search?q=asp+content-type+set'
Ref A: 20D3A4EE958A4CB397424932B71E8D7D Ref B: A3D6F66D88F069EA1493180BDA7BB788 Ref C: Thu Apr 07 10:42:40 2011
 PST[jbaltz@3phase ~]$
More detail:
[jbaltz@3phase ~]$ curl -v 'http://www.bing.com/search?q=asp+content-type+set'
* About to connect() to www.bing.com port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 63.233.110.17... connected
* Connected to www.bing.com (63.233.110.17) port 80 (#0)
> GET /search?q=asp+content-type+set HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (i386-portbld-freebsd6.4) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.7e zlib/1.2.3
> Host: www.bing.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Cache-Control: private
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:41:23 GMT
< Transfer-Encoding:  chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Connection: Transfer-Encoding
< Set-Cookie: _SS=SID=7097FF33770247C99BF0D79B55ABD80F; domain=.bing.com; path=/
< Set-Cookie: OVR=flt=0&flt2=0&flt3=0&flt4=0&flt5=0&flt6=0&flt7=0&ramp1=snrport4-release&release=or3&preallocation=0&R=1; domain=.bing.com; path=/
< Set-Cookie: SRCHD=D=1717541&MS=1717541&AF=NOFORM; expires=Sat, 06-Apr-2013 17:41:23 GMT; domain=.bing.com; path=/
< Set-Cookie: SRCHUID=V=2&GUID=862B2BC7B4AA4476945C2874AA071473; expires=Sat, 06-Apr-2013 17:41:23 GMT; path=/
< Set-Cookie: SRCHUSR=AUTOREDIR=0&GEOVAR=&DOB=20110407; expires=Sat, 06-Apr-2013 17:41:23 GMT; domain=.bing.com; path=/
<
Ref A: 02B378319EF048118C2FD3437774504C Ref B: FC67727D73CC547AB3D2760D7E4C3E85 Ref C: Thu Apr 07 10:41:23 2011
* Connection #0 to host www.bing.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
Oddly enough, I can get this result in Firefox 4 and on the unix command line, but not in Google Chrome or IE8.