Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-03-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011/02/14 09:37, Stuart Henderson wrote: As mentioned in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578019 browsers using ports/www/webkit make a dns request for . each time the mouse position changes. Chrome doesn't have this problem (it doesn't seem to have this code in its

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-03-06 Thread Marco Peereboom
yes please On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 10:52:16AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011/02/14 09:37, Stuart Henderson wrote: As mentioned in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578019 browsers using ports/www/webkit make a dns request for . each time the mouse position changes.

evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
As mentioned in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578019 browsers using ports/www/webkit make a dns request for . each time the mouse position changes. Chrome doesn't have this problem (it doesn't seem to have this code in its internal copy of webkit). I tracked down a patch in

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread David Coppa
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: ... With the port diff below, I can now start xxxterm or midori, open a page, and move the mouse over the window, without sending hundreds or thousands of junk requests to the nameserver. If you're using this on

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread Marco Peereboom
I am all for this. In fact I think we should go further and remove the guess url that user typed because he/she can't type code as well and while at it the dns prefetcher. On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:37:19AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: As mentioned in

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread Robert Nagy
why? disable it in xxterm if you don't like it, some people actually do like it. On (2011-02-14 07:27), Marco Peereboom wrote: I am all for this. In fact I think we should go further and remove the guess url that user typed because he/she can't type code as well and while at it the dns

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread Marco Peereboom
I think you don't understand what happens behind the scenes. Every domain you enter gets prefixed and tested against the domain the browser thinks you are in. you type moo on you a.b.com domain and you'll see fantastically smart dns lookups such as: moo.com.a.b.com, moo.net.a.b.com etc. Easily

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread Robert Nagy
I know, I've read the discussion and I am still saying: do not disable it by default. On (2011-02-14 08:07), Marco Peereboom wrote: I think you don't understand what happens behind the scenes. Every domain you enter gets prefixed and tested against the domain the browser thinks you are in.

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Bennett
Kill it! I am often stuck behind slow internet connections Chris Bennett

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:10:52 +0100 Robert Nagy wrote: I know, I've read the discussion and I am still saying: do not disable it by default. I always disable prefetching where possible in all browsers. I only want to connect to and download stuff that I click on. Is there a decent example

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread patrick keshishian
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: As mentioned in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578019 browsers using ports/www/webkit make a dns request for . each time the mouse position changes. brilliant software is brilliant.

Re: evil webkit bug, loads of junk DNS requests

2011-02-14 Thread Landry Breuil
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:07:57AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: I think you don't understand what happens behind the scenes. Every domain you enter gets prefixed and tested against the domain the browser thinks you are in. you type moo on you a.b.com domain and you'll see fantastically