Comment 18 for bug 790216

I can't believe I'm reading something that stupid.

The basic rule of network engineering is not to automatically reconnect IMMEDIATELY and indefinitely.
But an equally basic trick of network engineering is to *do* automatically reconnect AFTER A SMALL TIME (e.g. a few seconds) and up to a LIMITED NUMBER OF TIMES.

FTP clients do that, email clients often do that, most any-kind-of-network-software clients do that, and it is especially vital for a video streaming client.