On 2011/02/14 09:37, Stuart Henderson wrote: > As mentioned in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578019 > browsers using ports/www/webkit make a dns request for . each > time the mouse position changes. > > Chrome doesn't have this problem (it doesn't seem to have > this code in its internal copy of webkit). > > I tracked down a patch in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38263 > which fixes this. It seems a bit of a hack (why is it bothering to > look these up internally anyway?) but it's way better than what we > have now. > > With the port diff below, I can now start xxxterm or midori, open a > page, and move the mouse over the window, without sending hundreds or > thousands of junk requests to the nameserver. > > If you're using this on a metered or slow internet connection it's > quite an improvement...
This is still a problem with the new version of webkit; updated diff below. Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/www/webkit/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.42 diff -u -p -r1.42 Makefile --- Makefile 3 Mar 2011 13:44:10 -0000 1.42 +++ Makefile 6 Mar 2011 10:51:55 -0000 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ COMMENT = open source web browser engine DISTNAME = webkit-1.2.7 EPOCH = 0 +REVISION = 0 CATEGORIES = www HOMEPAGE = http://webkitgtk.org/ Index: patches/patch-WebCore_platform_network_soup_DNSSoup_cpp =================================================================== RCS file: patches/patch-WebCore_platform_network_soup_DNSSoup_cpp diff -N patches/patch-WebCore_platform_network_soup_DNSSoup_cpp --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ patches/patch-WebCore_platform_network_soup_DNSSoup_cpp 6 Mar 2011 10:51:55 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +$OpenBSD$ +--- WebCore/platform/network/soup/DNSSoup.cpp.orig Sat Mar 5 20:50:25 2011 ++++ WebCore/platform/network/soup/DNSSoup.cpp Sat Mar 5 20:51:40 2011 +@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ namespace WebCore { + void prefetchDNS(const String& hostname) + { + #ifdef HAVE_LIBSOUP_2_29_90 ++ if (hostname.isEmpty()) ++ return; + String uri = "http://"+hostname; + GOwnPtr<SoupURI> soupURI(soup_uri_new(uri.utf8().data())); + // We may get invalid hostnames, so NULL-check here.
