Re: Feature request: Server connection status message

Hi James,

> 'Transferring ...' is already covered in the top right corner, where
> there is a number of kilobytes that goes grey when transferring
> finishes.

ah, you are right, I was not aware of that.

> I wonder if the other things that you want could be retrofitted into
> that box.  I wonder if the set should include:
> - Parse  - parsing the URL and preparing to act on it
> - DNS   - waiting for the DNS
> - CONN  - waiting for a TCP connection to complete
> - SEC  - waiting for a security handshake

Yes, that would be great!  It would make even more transparent what
Dillo does in the background.

Best regards,
Alex

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:53:49PM +1300, James C wrote:
> Hello Alexander,
> 
> 'Transferring ...' is already covered in the top right corner, where
> there is a number of kilobytes that goes grey when transferring
> finishes.
> 
> I wonder if the other things that you want could be retrofitted into
> that box.  I wonder if the set should include:
> - Parse  - parsing the URL and preparing to act on it
> - DNS   - waiting for the DNS
> - CONN  - waiting for a TCP connection to complete
> - SEC  - waiting for a security handshake
> 
> Regards,
> James.
> 
> On 08/03/2016, Alexander Voigt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear Dillo developers,
> >
> > since the bug tracker is down, please let me propose a new feature
> > over the mailing list.
> >
> > From time to time I am in places with a very bad internet connection.
> > when I surf with Dillo and click on a link it appears that nothing
> > happens, except that the link color has changed.  Then I'm usually
> > wondering what's going on now.  Did I really click the link?  Has the
> > server has been found?  Is the server responding very slowly?  Does
> > Dillo receive data from it?  Or is my connection dead?
> >
> > To avoid this confusion, I'd like to propose a status message which is
> > displayed in the status bar at the very bottom of the Dillo window.
> > The message could say what is currently been done.  For example,
> > Firefox says
> >
> >    "Looking up www.example.de"
> >    "Waiting for www.example.de"
> >    "Transferring data from www.example.de"
> >
> > Many thanks and best regards,
> > Alex
> >
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