[Qt-interest] understanding QNetworkAccessManager

[Frank Mertens]

I just started looking into QtNetwork's new facilities.
The help of QNetworkAccessManager provides the following example:

 QNetworkRequest request;
 request.setUrl(QUrl("http://qtsoftware.com"));
 request.setRawHeader("User-Agent", "MyOwnBrowser 1.0");

 QNetworkReply *reply = manager->get(request); // <= request send here?
 connect(reply, SIGNAL(readyRead()), this, SLOT(slotReadyRead()));
 connect(reply, SIGNAL(error(QNetworkReply::NetworkError)),
         this, SLOT(slotError(QNetworkReply::NetworkError)));
 connect(reply, SIGNAL(sslErrors(QList<QSslError>)),
         this, SLOT(slotSslErrors(QList<QSslError>)));

For me it looks like a bluntly presented race condition.
I tried to figure out at which point exactly the request
is send. Maybe I'm missing something. But is the request
send somewhere in the GUI event loop?