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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:23:25 +0100

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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.

If nothing answers then it will wait until TCP timeout.

Andreas.

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