PuTTY semi-bug disconnect

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summary: Better handling of the connection closing
class: semi-bug: This might or might not be a bug, depending on your precise definition of what a bug is.
difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.
blocks: reconnect-auto
priority: medium: This should be fixed one day.
fixed-in: 2005-01-12 (0.58) (0.59) (0.60) (0.61) (0.62) (0.63) (0.64)

Better handling of the connection closing, and of SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT being received. Ideally we should maintain our own idea of when and whether we expect to see a closure, and only signal clean exit when a closure or disconnect arrives that we were expecting. If one arrives unexpectedly it should count as an ungraceful closure, display a dialog box containing the text out of MSG_DISCONNECT, and not close the window unless the user selected "Always".

SGT, 2005-01-11: In fact, SSH is really simple in this respect: as far as I can tell it's always the client's job to close the connection, so any closure on the part of the server counts as unexpected. Unless, that is, it comes after a DISCONNECT.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2005-06-11 13:29:30 +0000)