Re: url-retrieve may cause hang

From: michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac)
Subject: Re: url-retrieve may cause hang
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:23:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ac3tk2yf.fsf@lrde.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B03AECA8-0514-4E7B-834B-DB134EA136C3@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Tue\, 17 Oct 2006 18\:48\:16 +0100")

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David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

> On 17 Oct 2006, at 15:57, Magnus Henoch wrote:
>
>> I have attached my first attempt.  There are two problems with it:
>
> Your patch works fine for my error case.

I doesn't help for the following case, but it's surely another
problem:
(run-with-timer 1 nil (lambda ()
                        (url-retrieve "http://block.com" 'ignore)))

if « block.com » doesn't answer.

This case is happening in Gnus, for example, with async demon.

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