Konqueror and uri filter plugins...

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 05 May 2010, Dawit A wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While investigating bug #105931
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105931), I run into two separate uri
> filter plugins that should have been combined into one to begin with. The
> filters I am speaking of are kdebase/runtime/kurifilter-
> plugins/localdomain and kdebase/runtime/kurilfilter-plugins/fixhost. Both
> of these filter do a DNS query to filter the url. If both of them end up
> getting executed, there can be up to 3 DNS queries when the user types a
> "short" url like "foo" before the request ever gets to the networking
> (KIO) layer. By combining the two, we can cut that down to 2 DNS queries
> at most. Plus the fixup host filter plugin uses a deprecated class anyhow
> and that needs to be addressed as well.
> 
> Any objections to doing that ? If not, I guess I will put it in my long
> TODO list to await its turn...

Excellent idea.

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