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| -rw-r--r-- | admin/FOR-RELEASE | 39 |
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diff --git a/admin/FOR-RELEASE b/admin/FOR-RELEASE index 40fb016879..84c236fe42 100644 --- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE +++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ invalid pointer from string_free_list. ** Fix up url-ldap.el. +** url/*.el has lots of `(declare (special ...))' which +are meaningless. What's that trying to do? + * BUGS ** Incomplete overlay mouse-face highlight bug (Ralf Angeli, Oct 18) @@ -62,42 +65,6 @@ further. I think in the near future we will see more of this problem, so it might be time to make anfe-ftp more intelligent. -** Bug in url-http-parse-headers, reported in -From: Vivek Dasmohapatra <[email protected]> -Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:13:13 +0100 - -Fetching a url with url-retrieve can reult in an anrbitrary buffer -being killed if a 401 (or possibly a 407) result is encountered: - -url-http-parse-headers calls url-http-handle-authentication, -which can call url-retrieve. - -This results in the current buffer being killed, and a new http buffer -being generated. However, when the old http buffer is killed, emacs -picks the top buffer from the list as the new current buffer, so by the -time we get to the end of url-http-parse-headers, _that_ buffer is marked -as dead even though it is not necessarily a url buffer, so next time the -url libraries reap their dead buffers, an innocent bystander buffer is -killed instead (and an obsolete http buffer may be left lying around too). - -A possible fix (which I am currently using) is to call set-buffer -on the return value of url-http-parse-headers: - - (case url-http-response-status - (401 - ;; The request requires user authentication. The response - ;; MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field containing a - ;; challenge applicable to the requested resource. The - ;; client MAY repeat the request with a suitable - ;; Authorization header field. - (url-mark-buffer-as-dead (current-buffer)) - (set-buffer (url-http-handle-authentication nil))) -etc .... - -which makes sure that it is the right http buffer that is current when -we come to mark the http buffers as dead. - - * GTK RELATED BUGS |