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

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

On December 20, 2017 6:09:24 AM GMT+02:00, raman <raman@google.com> wrote:
> This is in emacs from Git@Head -- though the issue has been around for
> a long time.
> 
> If you use EWW to open a Web site -- say 
> http://www.cnn.com  ---  then do M-x list-processes --- you see  that
> there is a "open" connection to www.cnn.com hanging around (likely
> because of http keep-alive?) -- not sure. 
> 
> There is no such connection hanging around if you open www.gnu.org.
> 
> 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))

I see such connections in the process list for gnu.org as well.
Moreover, if I open cnn.com in a browser, netstat shows me connections waiting to various addresses in cnn.com domain, exactly like I see in Emacs.
On what OS do you get "nothing" after some such open connections?