From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: url-retrieve fails on most HTTPS sites Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:24:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20200928232459.GA128690@scrozzle> References: <87sgb1my75.fsf@hypra-graner> <87k0wdsde8.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29277"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 29 01:25:34 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1kN2WU-0007Uj-Ee for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:25:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34818 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kN2WT-0006OL-Eg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:25:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kN2W9-0006Mh-VM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from www458.your-server.de ([136.243.165.62]:49212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kN2W7-0007Wb-K4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from sslproxy01.your-server.de ([78.46.139.224]) by www458.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92.3) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kN2Vz-0008O8-9S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from [172.58.59.252] (helo=localhost) by sslproxy01.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>) id 1kN2Vy-000F8L-G5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:25:02 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k0wdsde8.fsf@ebih.ebihd> X-Authenticated-Sender: 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.102.4/25941/Mon Sep 28 15:55:11 2020) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=136.243.165.62; envelope-from=2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com; helo=www458.your-server.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/28 19:25:04 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: 14 X-Spam_score: 1.4 X-Spam_bar: + X-Spam_report: (1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS=3.335, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124186 Archived-At: On 2020-09-29 at 01:13:51 +0200, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > Nicolas Graner wrote: > > > (switch-to-buffer (url-retrieve > > "https://wikipedia.org/" '(lambda (&rest ignore)))) > > > > The buffer that shows up is empty. > > Never heard of `url-retrieve' but I have it and yes, > what "shows up is empty". It works for me. Sort of. I ran (url-retrieve "https://wikipedia.org/" (lambda (&rest ignore))) in my *scratch* buffer, and watched carefully. (url-retrieve "https://wikipedia.org/" (lambda (&rest ignore))) # That buffer is empty. But the buffer " *http www.wikipedia.org:443*" contains the HTML I/we expected. > (BTW, don't quote lambdas! was the rule one decade ago...) >From wrting too much Common Lisp, I'm used to writing #'(lambda ...), but I'm not qualified to judge elisp.