Re: Downloading with Emacs - bug in url-http.el?

[Lennart Borgman]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

> I just tried
>
>    (url-dl-download "http://purl.org/harder/dpans.html"; 
>                     "/usr/local/src/" 
>                     nil 
>                     "Common_Lisp.texi")
>
> and received this error message:
>
>    error in process filter: progn: 
>    Opening output file: no such file or directory, 
>    /home/bob/emacs-21/http:/www.ifa.au.dk/~harder/dpans.html-h.txt
>
> I also tried the command replacing the nil argument with "" but the
> expression also failed.
>  
I have tried to find the cause if this. It seems like the callback 
functions from url-retrieve does not work as it should. I get callbacks 
from redirections though I believe it is not documented that it should 
behave this way.

I have implemented a workaround. This workaround unfortunately means you 
can not have more than one download active (and it is not foolproof).