Re: address@hidden: url-http.el breaks Emacs/W3]

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     It was broken by this change:
>
>     2005-07-15  Richard M. Stallman  <address@hidden>
>
>           * url-http.el (url-http-parse-headers): Add :redirect arg-pair
>           when calling url-retrieve, to indicate a redirect.
>
>           * url.el (url-retrieve): The callback function can get an additional
>           keyword arg pair.
>
>     w3-fetch-callback does not know how to deal with that.
>
> The change I installed fixes a bug.  ISTR that my fix was the only
> natural one that I saw.  It may be that someone will find another good
> way to fix this which is 100% compatible.
>
> Otherwise, I think w3 needs to be changed to handle this convention.


The w3 repository seems to have a fix for this problem now:

revision 1.36
date: 2006-11-01 00:21:50 +0000;  author: legoscia;  state: Exp;  lines: +24 -8
lisp/w3.el (w3-fetch-redirect-callback): Handle both old and new style
of `url-retrieve' callback.


So I have deleted the following item from FOR-RELEASE / BUGS:

** W3 status with latest url package.


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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk