Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> -    (unless (= (string-bytes request)
> -               (length request))
> -      (error "Multibyte text in HTTP request: %s" request))
> +    (when (mutibyte-string-p request)
> +      (error "Multibyte text in HTTP request: %s, please translate

This is going to break many current callers.  Most people aren't doing
anything as weird as trying to transmit non-ASCII text via any of these
headers (it's a very uncommon thing to do), but are just passing in
normal Emacs strings (containing nothing by ASCII, as is proper).

These will all fail if you do this, for no real gain.

Sorry to keep harping on about this, but the current url-* interface is
inadequate.  We should leave it be and move on to create a new,
well-defined url-fetching interface.

I hope to get time to do that during my next holiday, which should be in
February.

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