On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 20:23 +0100, Simon Paillard wrote: > - Load any page (e.g. www.debian.org or even a 404, like > http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/test.html). > - Run wireshark/tshark and follow DNS requests: > "(dns.flags.response == 0) && (dns.qry.type == 0x0001)" > - Force a reload of the page -> requests perfomered against null name, 0x00 in > DNS, while it should be www.debian.org.
Thanks! > > This is WebKit pre-resolving DNS, but I still don't really understand > > the 0x00 reference. In any case, Epiphany doesn't deal with network > > directly, that is libsoup's domain, so I think we should reassign it > > there, and perhaps get some testing on experimental's libsoup to see if > > there's been any improvement. Could anyone help with this? > > This is easily reproducible (not tested in experimental yet). > I don't know which is responsible to trigger this mecanism, but this is > triggered everytime the mouse is moved, even when the object is kept the same. > Is this under epiphany reponsability to cache results and not request them > again and again to libsoup ? That would be webkit. Epiphany is doing some DNS pre-fetching in the latest versions, but not related to the page, only to the address bar. Cheers, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[email protected]> Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
