From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 19822@debbugs.gnu.org, ivan@siamics.net
Subject: bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:22:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tv8uchxf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wodqgs0z.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:30:36 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 19822@debbugs.gnu.org, ivan@siamics.net
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:30:36 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure I understand the proposal: we are being asked to remove
> > ftp:, news:, etc. from being supported by the URL library? I think
> > those protocols are still widely used, no?
>
> Not ftp:, but news: and gopher: and the other obscure ones.
>
> They aren't used a lot and some of them do not work at all currently.
How are network news URL referenced, if not by 'news:'?
Anyway, can we please have an explicit list of those we'd like to
deprecate, and some usage numbers to back that? I'd like to have some
more firm basis for this decision, if possible.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-30 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-06 19:15 bug#17959: eww: FTP is not supported; but with ftp_proxy, it is Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-04 16:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-10 21:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-19 8:04 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-19 17:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-16 20:09 ` bug#17959: support accessing FTP services via HTTP proxies Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-12 21:40 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-09 16:55 ` bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI Ivan Shmakov
2015-12-25 19:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-28 22:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
[not found] ` <87fuym1b2r.fsf@lifelogs.com>
2015-12-28 22:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <87r3iawdyl.fsf@gnus.org>
2015-12-25 23:47 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-30 1:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-30 5:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 7:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-30 14:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 13:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 13:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 15:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-01 13:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 14:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 14:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 15:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 16:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2015-02-09 17:04 ` bug#17959: support accessing FTP services via HTTP proxies Ivan Shmakov
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