219945 - Conn: waits forever instead of "connection failed" message when nothing listens to destination port

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 219150

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Spiros Ioannou]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030917

In the latest nightlys (including today's) when connecting somewhere where
there's no web server listening, instead of the "connection refused" message the
browser hangs in the "connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" state forever
The same happens with every port, not just the 80.
Very irritating when you have redirected all ad-related sites to 127.0.0.1
because nothing works :-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.If not running a web server to your host try http://127.0.0.1 
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
the browser hangs in the "connecting to 127.0.0.1" state forever.

Expected Results:  
immediately show "connection refused".

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219150 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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