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24.3; url-copy-file sometimes silently downloads garbage or incomplete file

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From: Ryan <rct <at> thompsonclan.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
Cc: 15905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15905: 24.3; url-copy-file sometimes silently downloads garbage or incomplete file
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 20:53:41 -0800

I believe I got my Emacs from http://emacsformacosx.com/. I don't know 
the configuration details of it.

On Sat Nov 16 15:27:18 2013, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:13:13 -0800 Ryan <rct <at> thompsonclan.org> wrote:
>
> R> In my experience, somewhere around 10% to 20% of the time the
> R> downloaded file has some kind of anomaly. Anomalies that I have
> R> observed so far include:
>
> R> - the file is not completely retrieved;
>
> R> - the file is complete, but has the following text appended:
>
>>> 0
>>>
>>> - Peer has closed the GnuTLS connection
>
> R> - the file contains only an HTTP header and nothing else:
>
>>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>> Server: GitHub.com
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:54:41 GMT
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>>> Status: 200 OK
>>> Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
>>> X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
>>> X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
>>> X-UA-Compatible: chrome=1
>>> Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://render.github.com
>
> R> In all cases, "url-copy-file" returns t as if the retrieval was
> R> completely successful, so the only way to detect these anomalies is to
> R> inspect the file's content.
>
> It's hard to tell from the bug report; can you tell us if your Emacs is
> compiled with the GnuTLS library?  (the output of `configure' would
> help, or tell us where you got the binary).
>
> Ted

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