Re: Problems with the url package on w32?

[Magnus Henoch]

Does anyone know what to do about this?


> Mathias Dahl <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Does (make-network-process :name "http" :buffer "http-localhost"
>>>                            :host "127.0.0.1" :service 80
>>>                            :nowait t)
>>> work?
>>
>> I get no error but it returns `nil'. I guess it should return a
>> process object, right?
>
> Yes.  Does it work with hosts other than localhost?

[ it doesn't ]

> The direct cause of the `nil' return value is this code in process.c:
>
>   if (s < 0)
>     {
>       /* If non-blocking got this far - and failed - assume non-blocking is
>        not supported after all.  This is probably a wrong assumption, but
>        the normal blocking calls to open-network-stream handles this error
>        better.  */
>       if (is_non_blocking_client)
>         return Qnil;
>
> This seems to be a bug of some sort.  The documentation doesn't
> mention that make-network-process might ever return nil.  I see four
> possible solutions; someone who knows Windows should look at this.
>
> 1. Make non-blocking connections work on Windows.
> 2. Make (featurep 'make-network-process '(:nowait t)) return nil on
>    Windows.
> 3. Document that make-network-process returns nil if it fails to
>    create a non-blocking socket.
> 4. Make make-network-socket do a blocking connect if a non-blocking
>    connect fails, and document that.
>
> Magnus