Subject: Re: bug#16220: url-http.el: Not conforming to HTTP spec

From: Ted Zlatanov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 17:33:41 -0500

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:55:07 +0100 Jarosław Rzeszótko <[email-masked]> wrote: 

JR> To turn this into a concrete proposal: I suggest this part in url-http.el
JR> (starting line 356 in trunk):

JR> ;; End request
JR> "\r\n"
JR> ;; Any data
JR> url-http-data
JR> ;; If `url-http-data' is nil, avoid two CRLFs (Bug#8931).
JR> (if url-http-data "\r\n")))

JR> Should read simply:

JR> ;; End request
JR> "\r\n"
JR> ;; Any data
JR> url-http-data))
...
JR> Futhermore url-http-attempt-keepalives should be nil as default, or better
JR> yet should be completely removed, as true keepalive connections are anyway
JR> not currently supported on the Emacs side, are they?

Jarosław,

can you please check if your fix corrects
https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa/issues/1193 which seems somewhat related?

I don't know much about this area but your fix could help this annoying
issue as well, if it's valid.

Ted