Does anybody know what is gvfsd-http?

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memento picture memento · Oct 14, 2012 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

gvfsd-http exists in Fedora, Ubuntu, and several other distros. Does anybody know what this process is used for? There is no information on the net, other than "gnome virtual file system".

What is it used for?

If it is not mandatory, how to get rid of it?

Sometimes I see connections like this:

tcp        1      0 192.168.1.3:45229       50.17.249.143:80        CLOSE_WAIT  5463/gvfsd-http

As you see the process is gvfsd-http. The IP address belongs to: cz-usa.com, a gun company. I had nothing to do with this website. Any ideas what is this process doing?

Answer

Denis G. picture Denis G. · Oct 15, 2012

This is a gvfs module for http support. It is used for example when you drag an image from the browser to the nautilus window.

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