From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?] Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:17:51 +0300 Message-ID: References: <15c3cc00-f56e-6e52-2228-30817639315a@gmail.com> <87v9cwek4u.fsf_-_@alphapapa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28852"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: Adam Porter , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 21 06:29:46 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1krDlR-0007Oo-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 06:29:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44654 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krDlQ-0007aP-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:29:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krDk0-0006Nc-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:28:16 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:46231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krDjy-0005HO-7r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:28:16 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.37]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000185B86.000000005FE0324A.000008D1; Sun, 20 Dec 2020 22:27:38 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -8 X-Spam_score: -0.9 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DATE_IN_PAST_12_24=1.049, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261370 Archived-At: * Stefan Monnier [2020-12-20 17:37]: > > Emacs definitely needs an alternative to url.el. It has some issues > > that are not easily solved nor worked around, such as potentially > > calling callbacks multiple times[0], requests not timing out, and some > > of its API being in the form of undocumented variables that must be > > let-bound around calls to its functions. > > We should improve the API, indeed. Would you be interested in working > on that? > > Extra bonus points if we can write a simple "`request` emulation layer" > on top of it ;-) > > We should also fix the bugs: the multiple callbacks issue shouldn't be > hard to trackdown and fix. > > > So in Ement.el[5], I've been using a simple Curl wrapper library that > > I've started.[6] It's rather primitive, but it seems to work well. > > I think it's important for Emacs to have a good HTTP API that works > without any external dependency. It (technically) could be in any of > the forms: > - Including `curl` in Emacs' tarball. > - Linking to some more-or-less standard HTTP library and exposing some > API to ELisp. > - Write it all in ELisp (like url.el does). > > If it can be done by improving url.el and growing a new API on top of > it, that will be less painful. Please see if this library could maybe help: https://gnunet.org/en/gnurl.html