Konqueror and uri filter plugins...

[Harri Porten]

On Wed, 5 May 2010, Dawit A wrote:

> 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...

Unless this breaks existing configurations (David will know;) I'd be all 
for it. I've been fighting with DNS problems often enough (like in 
QHostAddress) and there appreciate every reduction in the number of 
lookups.

Harri.