Re: abort on read failure

Jorge Arellano Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 04:25:29PM +0000, eocene wrote:
> 
> I was recently in an environment with a very weak connection.
> With most sites, if I didn't get a full page, lsof would show the
> connection still open and just sitting there. Some sites _would_
> close the connection, but unfortunately dillo wouldn't give the
> user any indication that further waiting was pointless.
> 
> I just committed some code that aborts the connection on read
> failure. It also gives a status msg to the user (though status
> messages are imperfect, as discussed last month).
> 
> The case where no data was received could bear further improvement,
> but I had limited time and improved what I needed most.
> 
> It got a week or so of "free" testing in that bad environment,
> and hasn't given me any trouble since then in more solid
> environments.

  Do you mean the problem of "unresponsive links" doesn't happen
anymore on "solid" environments?


-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-
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