Re: Fwd: HTTP redirects make url-retrieve-synchronously asynchronous

[Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> 2. sometimes the callback gets called in another buffer than the one
>>> returned by url-retrieve.
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>>> One solution would be to give the first buffer a local variable that
>>> would, in this case, point to the second buffer.
>>> Then url-retrieve-synchronously could check the local variable, which
>>> would tell it to check the process in the other buffer.
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>> Yes, sounds like a good quick-fix.
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> The patch below uses this approach.  Mark, does it work well for you?

It does; thanks!  Are applications supposed to be aware of the possibility
of redirect buffers and clean up both the original buffer and the redirect
buffer?  You could easily say "It's a work around, so yes!" :)