Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

On Jul 18 2015, Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:00:52AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> On Jul 15 2015, Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> wrote:
>> > As Jakub was saying: just starting it up without even visiting a site yet will
>> > do a POST and a *few dozen* GET requests.  Shouldn't it be waiting with its
>> > checks until it actually knows what to check?  What is it sending them at
>> > browser startup?
>> 
>> Why don't you check the code?
>
> That won't answer the why, just the how.

Aeh, please re-read what you've quoted. The question was *what*, not
*why* or *how*. And the code will answer that exactly.

Best,
-Nikolaus

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