Re: url library and GnuTLS, and Emacs-issued certificates

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:23:15 -0400 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote: 

CY> There is one main snag: open-protocol-stream returns a four-element
CY> list, (PROC GREETING CAPABILITIES TYPE), while open-network-stream
CY> returns just PROC.

CY> Within Gnus, the call to open-protocol-stream in nntp-open-connection
CY> discards the other list elements anyway; but nnimap-open-connection-1
CY> does use them.

CY> How about if we change this by adding a :return-list parameter that
CY> makes open-network-stream (merged from open-protocol-stream) return a
CY> list rather than a process object?  Then, in the absence of this
CY> parameter, only a process object would be returned.

Can the return list be made, instead, into a property list after the
first element?  Something like

(PROC :greeting GREETING :capabilities CAPABILITIES :type TYPE)

Since only Gnus uses the extended format it should be OK to do this;
it's backwards compatible and can be extended further.

Ted