bug#19729: 25.0.50; url-retrieve-synchronously never returns when there's no response from the server

[Andreas Schwab]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> Evaluate
>
> (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://localhost:3333/foo";)
>
> As long as there's nothing running on that port, the function call
> should return quickly, but it never completes.

If nothing answers then it will wait until TCP timeout.

Andreas.

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