[webkit-gtk] 1.4.1 - CLOSE_WAIT

[David Hill]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:19:08PM -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
:On 06/24/2011 04:49 PM, David Hill wrote:
:> When using a browser with WebkitGTk 1.4.1, I get a lot of CLOSE_WAITs
:> sitting around.  Does Webkit open up sockets itself, or does it solely
:> use libsoup to do the web connections?
:
:This is one of the leftover bits of historical lameness in libsoup. It
:doesn't pay attention to persistent connections when they're idle. So if
:the server times out a connection and closes it, it will show up in
:CLOSE_WAIT on the client for a while. Libsoup will only notice it when
:either you try to connect to that server again, or if it hits the
:maximum-number-of-open-connections limit.
:
:-- Dan

It seems if I compile webkit 1.4.1 with --enable-web-sockets=no, the
CLOSE_WAIT issues go away.