From 0ab0e6757a460e1704478d8a2785048443ad39d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mailchuck <dev@mailchuck.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:47:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Restrict pending parallel requests on proxy

This saves some network resources if using Tor, for example.
---
 src/bitmessagemain.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/bitmessagemain.py b/src/bitmessagemain.py
index 50971f66..43db5ae1 100755
--- a/src/bitmessagemain.py
+++ b/src/bitmessagemain.py
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ def connectToStream(streamNumber):
         maximumNumberOfHalfOpenConnections = 9
     else:
         maximumNumberOfHalfOpenConnections = 64
+    try:
+        # don't overload Tor
+        if shared.config.get('bitmessagesettings', 'socksproxytype') != 'none':
+            maximumNumberOfHalfOpenConnections = 4
+    except:
+        pass
     for i in range(maximumNumberOfHalfOpenConnections):
         a = outgoingSynSender()
         a.setup(streamNumber, selfInitiatedConnections)