Re: url-retrieve fails on most HTTPS sites

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

>>>>> 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE  <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com> writes:

    > On 2020-09-29 at 06:45:54 +0100,
    > Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> wrote:

    >> >>>>> 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com>
    >> writes:
    >> 
    >> ----- Cut -----
    >> 
    >> > In any case, I ran switch-to-buffer and then pressed the space
    >> bar > and the TAB key to display all the buffers whose names
    >> began with > a space, and one of those buffers was " *http >
    >> www.wikipedia.org:443*," and that's how I found it.
    >> 
    >> Yes, that works for me too. Strange. I wonder why the buffer
    >> doesn't appear elsewhere, e.g. when Ibuffer is run?

    > As per the manual¹:

    >     Buffers that are ephemeral and generally uninteresting to the
    > user have names starting with a space, so that the list-buffers
    > and buffer-menu commands don’t mention them (but if such a buffer
    > visits a file, it is mentioned). A name starting with space also
    > initially disables recording undo information; see Undo.

    > ¹
    > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Buffer-Names.html

Thanks for the information. I really should read the manual.

Best wishes,