[rekonq] DNS-Blocking Issue

Sascha Wunderlich s.wunderlich at eumel-at.net
Fri Oct 9 23:56:31 CEST 2009


Hello everyone,

first, thanks for making rekonq as awesome as it is :)

Rekonq shows a very annoying behavior when I use a DNS-proxy based adblocking 
system. Situation: DNS queries on my machine run through a local dnsmasq-
service, which simply resolves common ad-serving hosts to 127.0.0.1. That way, 
ad banners are not show because they are simply not found. And here comes the 
bug:

Rekonq loads an ad-infested page, and when it failes loading a simple banner 
(as intended!) it throws me to an error page á la "ad.de.doubleclick.net: 
Connection refused" (leaving the page, of course. Not as intended! :( )
That is not always the case, i guess it might have something to do with 
iframes, but I'm not sure. The bug prevents me from using rekonq for Amazon, 
for example.

It does not seem to be a qtwebkit bug, arora is not showing that behavior in 
the same setup.

I am using rekonq from git, compiled today. The bug started appearing soon 
after 0.2 was released.

I hope you can fix that, it's a real showstopper for me (and probably everyone 
else using DNS-based adblocking)

Greetings from Germany,
Sascha


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