wininet: prevent memory leak and superfluous status notifications

[Kevin Koltzau]

On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:04 pm, Steven Edwards wrote:
> While you are working on the wininet stuff... If you have time could
> you look at a way to be able to make use of Winsock on the mingw port?
> We wanted to  convert wininet to winsock but Alexandre says this will
> be to slow on Unix so we need to do something the wininet souce to be
> able to make it use Unix sockets on Unix and Winsock on the windows
> port. I dont really understand or know how this should be done as I
> never really have done any socket programing. If you could fix it for
> Wininet or point me to a example then I can try and do it for other
> dlls we might want to share on the Windows port. I am thinking about
> trying to port our ICMP.dll to Winsock also for the Mingw/ReactOS port
> but once again it needs to be able to do both Winsock and Unix Sockets.

I could take a look at it once I finish with a few other changes I have planned
for wininet, not sure when that will be exactly however (at least a week or two).