Re: Flipping url-show-status default

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> I don't think setting url-show-status to nil is the right thing; it's
>> pretty important to show something, particularly for synchronous
>> fetching, so that the user knows the connection isn't hung.  But we can
>> probably comment out some of the less important messages in url-http.el.
>
> Why do we want to do this at such a low level in the url fetching
> library when we don't do it in other libraries?  Surely it must be up to
> the caller of the url fetching library to message about these things if
> they think it's necessary.

This would involve specifying a callback function for each intermediate
step; callers would have to specify their own callback function, but
pretty much every caller would want to do the same thing, i.e. report
how much of the operation is done).  If the URL reporting is too
verbose, I think it makes more sense to tweak it, rather than opening up
an additional mostly useless interface.