Hi all,

I'm currently using firefox+flashgot with kget as download manager for all sorts of downloading purposes. Flashgot allows you to select a part of a webpage, from which it extracts all links, which you can then choose do download using the download manager of your choice, in my case kget. Problem is, when I do so, this launches a bunch of kio_http processes which start then hogging the CPU (as I'm writing this, three are running using up 60% of it). Killing them all doesn't interrupt any of the downloads, so I wonder what they're actually for, though new ones keep popping up. Is this a bug in kget or something? Ideas?

This is probably KGet probing the urls to determine what the mimetype of the items is. Which version of KDE/KGet are you using? ( kget --version )

Kget 2.5.1 on KDE 4.5.1 on kubuntu 10.10

I'd suggest filing a bug, as kio_http should be a very low CPU usage process, and the high usage indicates that something unexpected has occurred.

Ok, will do.

Filed a bug report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258911