GNU bug report logs - #15905
24.3; url-copy-file sometimes silently downloads garbage or incomplete file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ryan <rct <at> thompsonclan.org>

Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:14:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 10504

Found in versions 24.0.90, 24.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 15905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 15905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: bug#15905: 24.3;
 url-copy-file sometimes silently downloads garbage or incomplete file
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 22:45:54 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 21:40:23 +0100
> Cc: 15905 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> this may be something about Mac OS X specifically.
> >
> > It's only gnutls-cli specific: I built Emacs 24.3 on Debian
> > --without-gnutls and got similar results; it also seemed like Emacs
> > was getting stuck in some CPU burning loop, I eventually C-g'd out of
> > it.
> >
> > gnutls-cli version 3.2.12
> 
> I'm not sure this is worth fixing -- perhaps the best would be to remove
> the support for external TLS programs.

If OS X has GnuTLS, then yes, I agree.
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