bug#71295: 29.3; url-retrieve-synchronously does not timeout if initial connection hangs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:09:03 -0400
> From: "Aaron Zeng" <z@bcc32.com>
> Cc: 71295@debbugs.gnu.org, azeng@janestreet.com
> 
> Is the idea just to use url-retrieve directly?

I think so, yes.

> This is probably rather naive of me, but I guess now I'm wondering why 
> url-retrieve-synchronously actually sets url-asynchronous to nil.  Is there a 
> good reason not to use :nowait when it is available?  It seems like it would 
> be useful to have a wrapper around url-retrieve that just "does what I mean" 
> here.

Maybe.  I wonder what others think about this.