Re: eww/url: www connections left "open"

[Óscar Fuentes]

raman <address@hidden> writes:

> 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 confirm the problem. Your method for killing those processes is not
effective because it depends on the presence of "www". Right now I have
4 open processes related to web sites, none of them contains the "www"
string.

BTW, it is preferable to report this problems with M-x report-emacs-bug.