From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer? Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173627595 24276 80.91.229.12 (11 Mar 2007 15:39:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:39:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 11 16:39:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HQQ9E-0006ps-6b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:39:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HQQ9m-0006iv-EL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:40:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1173624010 22267 166.84.1.3 (11 Mar 2007 14:40:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:40:10 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.7.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146277 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41883 Archived-At: Is there an Emacs command that would load a given URL into an Emacs buffer? Normally I would 1) switch to a browser; 2) visit the desired URL; 3) use the browser's "Save as..." command to save the URL's content; 4) switch back to Emacs; and 5) open the downloaded file, but this but this song-and-dance can get cumbersome after a while. If the function I'm interested in doesn't exist, is there something close that I could hack? Basically I need Emacs functions to send and receive HTTP messages. TIA! kj -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.