"Oliver Muth" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Fabian Keil wrote:
> > "Oliver Muth" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Now how can I avoid this? Who is to blame? How can I find out more?
> >
> > You could try checking with netstat to see if there are any
> > connections open between polipo and Firefox.
> 
> netstat -taep revealed that one of polipo's sockets was staying in CLOSE_WAIT 
> status forever:
> 
> tcp 1 0 localhost:8123 localhost:55010 CLOSE_WAIT proxy 333512 2093/polipo

Was this the the only connection?

Even if it really originated from Firefox, I wouldn't expect it
to matter for Firefox's internal accounting anymore.

> Now this is a bit over my head, so please bear with me.
> Does this mean firefox has not properly requested or acknowledged closing of 
> the port (and it is firefox' fault), or has firefox closed the port but 
> polipo for whatever reason has not done so(and it is polipo's fault)?

Without a packet dump it's hard to tell.

BTW, another thing you could test is if a "hanging" Firefox
still opens direct connection to site for which you added
a proxy exception and if that works even if the request
is made to Polipo's proxy port.

Fabian

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