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Re: eww/url: www connections left "open"
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: eww/url: www connections left "open" |
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Wed, 20 Dec 2017 06:56:53 +0200 |
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On December 20, 2017 6:09:24 AM GMT+02:00, raman <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is in emacs from address@hidden -- though the issue has been around for
> a long time.
>
> If you use EWW to open a Web site -- say
> http://www.cnn.com --- then do M-x list-processes --- you see that
> there is a "open" connection to www.cnn.com hanging around (likely
> because of http keep-alive?) -- not sure.
>
> There is no such connection hanging around if you open www.gnu.org.
>
> Most of the time, this is harmless and the connections go away ---
> except when they dont, and if more than a few of these hang around,
> then opening other URLs with EWW produces nothing. Killing those
> hanging connections with delete-process immediately gets EWW working
> again --- e.g. killing those connections with the following loop:
>
> (cl-loop
> for p in (process-list)
> when (string-match "www" (process-name p))
> do (delete-process p))
I see such connections in the process list for gnu.org as well.
Moreover, if I open cnn.com in a browser, netstat shows me connections waiting
to various addresses in cnn.com domain, exactly like I see in Emacs.
On what OS do you get "nothing" after some such open connections?