Subject: bug#19729: closed (Re: bug#19860: 25.0.50; One url-retrieve-synchronously call running concurrently with another can freeze it)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 15:24:02 +0000

Your bug report

#19729: 25.0.50; url-retrieve-synchronously never returns when there's no response from the server

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#19860: 25.0.50; One url-retrieve-synchronously call running concurrently with another can freeze it
From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
To: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:23:37 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 04/26/2015 06:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It looks like this also fixed bug#20207 and #19729, so I think we can
> close them.  Dmitry, can you verify that they are solved for you as
> well?

Indeed, they are. Thanks for the reminder.

Subject: 25.0.50; url-retrieve-synchronously never returns when there's no response from the server
From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:11:16 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Evaluate

(url-retrieve-synchronously "http://localhost:3333/foo")

As long as there's nothing running on that port, the function call
should return quickly, but it never completes.

On emacs-24, it works as expected.

In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.9 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.12.2)
 of 2015-01-29 on axl
Repository revision: 1dc1959ebf50401c69adeb6d182950b59835f94d
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11601901
System Description:	Ubuntu 14.10