Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-22 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:53 -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: > > For some reason WebKit thinks it should do the pre-resolution when the > > mouse is moved on top of the blank area of the page indeed. > > It turns out that this bug was already reported OVER A YEAR AGO: > > https://bugs.webkit.

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-20 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:12:16 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I can reproduce the problem with the HTML page you crafted. Seems > worth reporting upstream (I will do it later today). > For some reason WebKit thinks it should do the pre-resolution when the > mouse is moved on top of the blank

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-20 Thread ian_bruce
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:12:16 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > I can reproduce the problem with the HTML page you crafted. Seems > worth reporting upstream (I will do it later today). > For some reason WebKit thinks it should do the pre-resolution when the > mouse is moved on top of the blank

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 04:21 -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: > -- then the above-mentioned DNS pre-resolution will result in exactly > the behavior that I've described, with the observed result that when the > mouse is over an actual hyperlink which has already been resolved, the > stream of DN

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-19 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:08:23 -0400 Michael Gilbert wrote: > i suppose i am not able to reproduce it either. i see a modest amount > of dns queries when the page is first loaded, then more queries when > links are moused over. I have that too, the first time the mouse pointer touches a link to s

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-18 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:40:20 -0700 ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:53:26 +0200 > Mike Hommey wrote: > > >> Does tcpdump show the DNS query for the webhost when a page gets > >> loaded? > > > > Yes it does. Have you tried with another window manager ? > > xfwm4 (v4.6.1-1)

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-18 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:53:26 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: >> Does tcpdump show the DNS query for the webhost when a page gets >> loaded? > > Yes it does. Have you tried with another window manager ? xfwm4 (v4.6.1-1) and metacity (v1:2.28.0-3) exhibit exactly the same behavior. Are there any others

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:52:04AM -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:41:30 +0200 > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I can't reproduce this behaviour... Are you sure these requests come > > from epiphany ? > > Epiphany, or Midori. > > midori : version 0.2.4-2 > > epiphany-br

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-18 Thread ian_bruce
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:41:30 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: > I can't reproduce this behaviour... Are you sure these requests come > from epiphany ? Epiphany, or Midori. midori : version 0.2.4-2 epiphany-browser : version 2.30.2-1 libwebkit-1.0-2 : version 1.2.0-1 The correlation between moving th

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:40:44PM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote: > Package: libwebkit-1.0-2 > Version: 1.2.0-1 > Severity: important > > > Webkit seems to make a DNS query for every mouse movement event that it > receives > from the browser window. (This happens with both Epiphany and Midori, so I >

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-17 Thread ian_bruce
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:46:50 -0400 Michael Gilbert wrote: >> I have to say that I find this behaviour appalling. It seems to be a >> security issue all by itself, and is probably a symptom of even >> bigger problems. > > it may actually be undesirable, It may actually be completely illegitimate

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-17 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:40:44 -0700 Ian Bruce wrote: > Package: libwebkit-1.0-2 > Version: 1.2.0-1 > Severity: important > > > Webkit seems to make a DNS query for every mouse movement event that it > receives > from the browser window. (This happens with both Epiphany and Midori, so I > assume

Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

2010-04-15 Thread Ian Bruce
Package: libwebkit-1.0-2 Version: 1.2.0-1 Severity: important Webkit seems to make a DNS query for every mouse movement event that it receives from the browser window. (This happens with both Epiphany and Midori, so I assume that the problem is in Webkit.) This is easy to reproduce; run the fol