RE: Sockets

In message <F7B5E9BD5A9.00001395dave@davehigton.me.uk>
Dave Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:08:33 GMT, Geoff wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it just me, or is Netsurf's sockets system awry. After a modest
>> browsing session Internet access freezes up due, I think,
>> to sockets being used up. Qitting Netsurf restores order. It seems to
>> have started about a couple of weeks ago. Not sure of the exact time.
>>
>> Risc Os 6.2 NS R1681. (JSoff)
>>
>> TTFN
>
> It's not just you. The symptom I notice (and I am not the first to
> say this) is failure to resolve links. I can save the link, quit
> NS and restart it, and the link works fine. It started more than 2
> week ago, but I don't remember when. I did not originally attribute
> the failure to NS, but now I'm sure.
>
> Dave
>
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Same symptom here (#1689, running on RPCEmu0.8.11/4.02 on a Win7-64
PC). However, I've noticed this link-resolving failure in Netsurf for
quite a while, so I wouldn't say it's a new problem. Quitting and
restarting Netsurf seems to restore normal behaviour, as the others
have found.

George

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