Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx leaves connections open

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 1997-11-17T08:24:36,
   David Woolley <address@hidden> said:

> > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address          Foreign Address        (State)
> > tcp     4300      0 pointer.teuto.de:14445 proxy.pointer.teu:8080 CLOSE_WAIT
>           ^^^^
> The connection is not being closed because Lynx hasn't finished reading from
> it.  That should produce obvious symptoms at the user interface which will
> almost certainly make diagnosis easier.

Yeah, I am aware of what this implies.

I watched the netstat output after every action in lynx, and it appears that
the bug triggers if you follow a link and invoke INTERRUPT before receiving
any data (if it takes ages for example and you decide to rather bookmark the
link and try later). lynx isn't closing the connection correctly in this case.

Any idea how this might get fixed?


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