Add #158: Use a single thread to wait for new requests on reused client connections

[privoxy.git] / TODO

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-$Id: TODO,v 1.152 2016/08/26 12:27:18 fabiankeil Exp $
+$Id: TODO,v 1.162 2017/05/20 09:25:00 fabiankeil Exp $
 
 Some Privoxy-related tasks, sorted by the time they
 have been added, not by priority.
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
 
 14) Allow to filter POST parameters.
 
-15) If trusted CGI pages are requested without trusted referrer,
-    set the status code to 403 instead of 200.
-
 16) Filter SSL encrypted content as well.
 
     At the beginning we could use a unencrypted connection between
@@ -173,6 +170,9 @@ http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
 68) Use standard make syntax so we don't depend on GNU make.
 
 69) Update autoconf setup (or move away from it).
+    Unfortunately the autoconf files can't be simply updated
+    due to license issues:
+    https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-devel/2016-April/000008.html
 
 70) If the server connection is reset but the headers are
     received, consider passing the mess to the client instead
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
 82) Detect if the system time goes back in time let the user
     know if it caused any connections to get closed.
 
-85) Once #84 is done, write a script that populates a directory with
+85) Once #51 is done, write a script that populates a directory with
     various common third-party icons (stumbleupon.png, facebook.png ...)
     and redirect requests for them to Privoxy.
 
@@ -447,6 +447,38 @@ http://www.privoxy.org/faq/general.html#DONATE
 151) Let the dok-tidy target work cross-platform without introducing
      a ton of white-space changes that hide the content changes.
 
+152) Fix CSS references in the website documentation.
+     For many pages p_doc.css is specified twice using different paths.
+     Usually at least one works, but not all of them do and the
+     duplicated requests are pointless even if they don't end up with
+     a 404.
+
+153) Catch SIGINT and use it to close the listen socket, serve
+     remaining connections and shut down. This would allow higher
+     uptime and make testing more convenient.
+
+154) Underline links in docs and cgi pages. More precisely,
+     don't mess with the browser defaults for link underlining.
+
+155) The sig_handler() shouldn't call log_error().
+     While it isn't known to cause actual problems in normal operation,
+     it's technically incorrect and causes crashes when running in
+     valgrind.
+
+156) Reject socks requests with an explicit error message similar
+     to the one used for ftp. Motivation:
+     https://lists.privoxy.org/pipermail/privoxy-users/2017-March/000195.html
+
+157) Add a directive to control the currently hardcoded receive-buffer size.
+
+158) Use a single thread to wait for new requests on reused client connections.
+     Currently the thread that handles the first request on a connection
+     stays responsible for the client connect until it gets closed.
+     In case of lots of idle connections lots of waiting threads are used.
+     While it's conceivable that this ineffiency is irrelevant from a
+     performance point of view, using a single thread should reduce Privoxy's
+     memory footprint a bit which may be noticeable in case of multi-user setups
+     with hundreds of idle connections.
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