Performance and compatibility release

The use of keep-alive/connection headers have been improved so Safari doesn't waste time trying to reuse a connection which is not reusable. In addition to being faster, this helps compatibility with some sites.

Never use keep-alive connections to Safari when downloading attachments as it seems like Cocoa's URLDownloader has a keep-alive bug when concurrently downloading several documents from the same server. The symptom is that the download hangs for a while when it is almost done (99%). This is often seen when downloading multiple items from rapidshare.

Little Snitch users: GlimmerBlocker now checks if Little Snitch must be upgraded. The 'Core System Version' 385 often breaks internet connectivity and must be upgraded to 387. Unfortunately, version 2.0.4 of Little Snitch have been released with both 385 and 387, so current 2.0.4 users may have to upgrade to 2.0.4(!). A re-download and installation of Little Snitch solves the problem.

Improved http client debug logging: Log DNS resolve time and time used for connecting to remote server.

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Version 1.3.1 was released 2009-01-25. List of release notes.