HSBC Site not Working?
Interesting - the HSBC website www.hsbc.co.uk appears to only deliver content in GZip. Any user agent trying to get to it that does not support GZip (through the Accept-Encoding header) will just get nothing from the server (it holds the connection but delivers nothing).
If, for whatever reason, you’re trying to get to the HSBC website with a simpler (ie. non-mainstream) browser this might be why. I’ve been getting very slow and funky (ie. corrupt) images in Firefox for a while - wonder if it’s related?
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May 15th, 2008 at 10:34 am
I’ve also been experiencing some problems with the HSBC website since I’m using Firefox 3 beta: it gets really slow or even times out when I go into the personal internet banking. I’ve had those corrupted images too.
The main page seems to be fine though, so I suspect there’s something with the secured pages (https).
Works fine with IE, and it was ok with Firefox 2.