From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Cc: 16960@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16960: 24.3.50; Infinite loop in url-retrieve-synchronously if method is POST and response status is 301/302
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 21:36:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2o22rlb.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878usmni8l.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:25:30 +0400")
Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
> The problem is the following: when I try to login to
> https://aur.archlinux.org with `url-retrieve-synchronously' (see the
> code below), Emacs freezes (C-g helps) because callback passed to
> `url-retrieve' is never called.
>
> AFAIU this happens because `url-http-parse-headers' returns nil if
> response status is 301/302/307 and method is not "HEAD" or "GET" (see
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/url/url-http.el#n574>).
> At least the problem goes away when I add:
>
> (setq success t)
>
> after
>
> (or `moved-permanently `found `temporary-redirect)
>
> in `url-http-parse-headers'.
>
> Would it be OK to allow such requests?
>
> Recipe is simple but you need to have an account on
> <https://aur.archlinux.org> for that:
I don't have an account there, so I can't reproduce this bug. But could
you create a patch that fixes this problem?
--
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2014-03-07 15:25 bug#16960: 24.3.50; Infinite loop in url-retrieve-synchronously if method is POST and response status is 301/302 Alex Kost
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