From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: url.el cookie policy
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:06:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31utovp2c.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
I just discovered that Gnus has been setting (and returning) cookies for
the images that it fetches via `url-retrieve' and friends. While this
is no catastrophe, it's probably not an information/tracking thing that
people would expect to happen when reading stuff via Gnus, I think.
However, switching this behaviour off in Gnus appears to be kinda
tricky. Since `url-retrieve' (and friends) are asynchronous, and they
create new buffers, neither binding `url-cookie-untrusted-urls' to
`(".*")', nor setting it buffer-locally does the trick.
So I would suggest changing the default for `url-cookie-untrusted-urls'
to `(".*")' for Emacs 24.1, and then reworking the `url-retrieve'
interface (as previously discussed), and then let it take the cookie
setting thing as a parameter.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/
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2011-11-03 22:06 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-11-03 22:39 ` url.el cookie policy Antoine Levitt
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