I *THINK* I finally figured out the idling problem and why I can't reproduce it. The current behavior is to use persistent (keep-alive) connections to the server. If the connection is busy when another request is sent, a new connection is made. However, this is limited to 2 connections. If there is an attempt to create another connection when 2 already exist then it will block until one of the other connections is closed. This never happens though, so it blocks forever with no error messages.

This explains why jondecker76 was getting the issue VERY quickly on the slow wireless adapter, because with a slow internet connection there is a much higher chance of the connection being busy when a new request needs to be sent.

It also explains my inability to reproduce the problem because I am running on a very stable wired connection.

In any case, I have temporarily removed the connection limit in order to confirm that this is indeed the cause of the problem. If this fixes the issue, then I will do a more permanent fix later.

However, as explained above I can't reproduce the problem myself so I need users to test this fix. You can either download the binaries below or checkout the latest SVN revision. (98 or 99 is fine)

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