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Ticket #207 (new defect)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 4 months ago

wget processes started by GLI keep running on GLI crash

Reported by: oranfry Assigned to: nobody
Priority: moderate Milestone: Release 2.81
Component: GLI Severity: major
Keywords: Cc:

Description

If you start a web download, and then GLI crashes (which it is apt to do if something goes wrong with the download), the wget process which is handling the download stays alive and runs in the background. This bug is especially troubling when this orphaned wget process has been set to follow links a to a ridiculous depth, like 10, which pretty much covers the whole internet. In this case, the wget process silently attempts to download the whole internet over a connection which might be pay-per-byte. This bug could attract 'GLI cost me hundreds with my ISP!' complaints so should be looked at promptly.

Change History

2008-04-03 11:53:40 changed by kjdon

  • severity set to major.
  • milestone set to Release 2.81.