[rekonq] DNS-Blocking Issue

[Andrea Diamantini]

On Friday 09 October 2009 23:56:31 Sascha Wunderlich wrote:
> 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

Hi Sascha,
and thanks for your report.
We'll surely so all is possible to fix this bug before 0.3 release.
Stay tuned :)

Cheers,
-- 
Andrea Diamantini, adjam
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