New connection for CSS files

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I’m noticing that for some strange reasons the browser makes new connection for the css files called inside the

Ideally the dns should be on the cache and I can see keep-alive for connection header in the response. But still…

Any clue on what’s wrong or could be wrong?

Here is the results page - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110416_CJ_93b92ad3bb8fbcd4c255a56a0ca3cfae/1/details/

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Thanks Patrick. Interesting IE bug!