nnrss keeping http connections open

nnrss keeping http connections open

[thorne]

Hi.  I am wondering if it is normal that nnrss in gnus seems to be
holding http connections open indefinitely.  Only when i finally quit
all the way out of emacs (IIRC) does it tell me there are active
connections still.  I don't yet have the slightest idea how nnrss
really works, but i thought i'd ask here if anyone knows what this is
about, or maybe where i should start looking.  Thanks.

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Re: nnrss keeping http connections open

[Andreas Seltenreich]

thorne writes:

> Hi.  I am wondering if it is normal that nnrss in gnus seems to be
> holding http connections open indefinitely.

This is probably the URL package using the connection keep-alive
feature of HTTP.  So it is normal that connections remain open until
they're closed from the server side.

> Only when i finally quit all the way out of emacs (IIRC) does it
> tell me there are active connections still.

I think it is rather unfortunate that the user is bothered with this
implementation detail when exiting Emacs.  However, this should be
easily fixable by resetting the query-on-exit flag on idle
connections.  I'll rise this on emacs-devel.

regards,
andreas