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* bug#19594: url-ftp: should not be aliased to url-file; url-file: use Tramp
@ 2015-01-14 11:12 Ivan Shmakov
  2015-01-15 23:22 ` Glenn Morris
  2019-10-01 16:24 ` bug#19594: url-ftp: should not be aliased to url-file; url-file: use Tramp Stefan Kangas
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Ivan Shmakov @ 2015-01-14 11:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 19594

Package:  emacs
Severity: minor

	As of 88bc8332eb14 (2015-01-07 13:51:41 +0000), url-ftp is
	implemented as an alias to url-file, which results in the
	following (unexpected) behavior.

(let ((url-proxy-services nil))
  (url-retrieve-synchronously "ftp://localhost/dev/null"))

	Returns: a buffer.  Expected: failure, as there’s no FTP server
	running on localhost.

(let ((url-proxy-services nil))
  (url-retrieve-synchronously "file://remote.example/dev/null"))

	Results in a internal-ange-ftp-mode buffer opened.  Expected:
	the contents of the file, as retrieved via Tramp.

	I understand that FTP was once the only widespread file transfer
	protocol /and/ that ange-ftp was once the only Emacs package
	providing access to remote filesystems.  Now that Emacs has
	Tramp, I see no reason for using ange-ftp for retrieving
	resources denoted by file: scheme URIs, – unless so is the
	preference of the user.

	My suggestion would be that the FTP-specific code be split off
	url-file.el into url-ftp.el (so that ftp: URIs would exclusively
	denote resources available via FTP), /and/ new Tramp interface
	(hopefully trivial) be coded into url-file.el.

-- 
FSF associate member #7257  np. The Alchemist — Iron Maiden  … B6A0 230E 334A





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2015-01-14 11:12 bug#19594: url-ftp: should not be aliased to url-file; url-file: use Tramp Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-15 23:22 ` Glenn Morris
2015-01-15 23:47   ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-16  8:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-18 18:50       ` bug#19594: using commit identifiers in bug reports Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-18 18:50       ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-18 18:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-23 14:52           ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-23 16:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-23 17:06               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-23 20:33                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-23 20:45                   ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-23 21:23                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-30 20:54                       ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-18 20:33         ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-01-19  3:30           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-19  3:32             ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-10-01 16:24 ` bug#19594: url-ftp: should not be aliased to url-file; url-file: use Tramp Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 17:09   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 17:25     ` Stefan Kangas

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