Re: eww/url: www connections left "open"

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

raman <address@hidden> writes:

> Most of the time, this is harmless and the connections go away ---
> except when they dont, and if more than a few of these hang around,
> then opening other URLs with EWW produces nothing. Killing those
> hanging connections with delete-process immediately gets EWW working
> again --- e.g. killing those connections with  the following loop:
>
> (cl-loop 
>  for p in (process-list)
>  when (string-match "www" (process-name p))
>  do (delete-process p))

The list of connections is in the `url-http-open-connections' hash
table, so you can just loop over that to kill the connections.

And, yes, it's annoying that url-http.el doesn't deal with hanging
connections very well.

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