Re: [PATCH] url: Wrap cookie headers in url-http--encode-string.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> That makes very little sense to me, as it will re-introduce the
> problems which caused us to add the test.  And it's a code change, so
> it will require at least the same amount of testing that whatever fix
> we come up with for this use case.  Sounds like lose-lose to me.

The problems were pretty obscure, since most servers don't care much
about what the length header says.  And removing the error-out has a
very small chance of breaking anything, to put it mildly.

And we have no idea how many of these unencoded parameters remain to be
encoded (because of the rather wonky url calling conventions), so we
could be adding these encoding patches piecemeal to Emacs 25.1 pretests
for the next couple of years (at the current going rate of one per
month) while waiting to find them all.

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