Hi, Answering to myself, keep-alive.timeout "determines how long keep-alive connections are kept alive", according to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.keep-alive.timeout. So might be an option to lower this value.
bert. On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:15:07PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > The LiveCDBestPractices [1] page of Torproject's wiki mentions that > iceweasel has a "network.http.keep-alive" setting in its configuration > that is said to be set to FALSE on this page. > > This has to be thought before being implemented in T(A)ILS as there are > pros and cons. > > Beginning by cons, disabling this setting would slow down the connections > to AJAX style websites like modern webmails or so. > > But having it set to true would make iceweasel having persistent > connections to websites. Persistent connections sounds bad, because it > means a Tor route is maintained to a website for the time of this > connection, which could break the anonymity. It does also break the use of > the "new identity" button, when the user want to use another route to a > given website. > > For what I can see in my browsing experience, when I watch the connections > with my own Vidalia, a lot of modern websites use AJAX to link to facebook > or similar, and I end up having persistent connections to that kind of > websites. > > Having a look at this option, it seems there is also a > "network.http.keep-alive.timeout" setting, which by default seems to be > set to 5 minutes (I guess, cause my Iceweasel setting has this value, and > I don't remember having modified it). > > So maybe an alternative would be to lower this timeout to something like 2 > or 3 minutes only. But I'm not sure it would really close the persistent > connections. Usually "timeout" means the time to wait for the other side > to answer before closing the connection. This would require some tests. > > Any opinion on this? > > bert. > > > [1] > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/LiveCDBestPractices > _______________________________________________ > tails-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://boum.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://boum.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev
