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url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stefan <at> marxist.se, 19822 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ivan <at> siamics.net
Subject: bug#19822: url-retrieve: allow to fail when no document is associated with the URI
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:30:36 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I'm not sure I understand the proposal: we are being asked to remove
> ftp:, news:, etc. from being supported by the URL library?  I think
> those protocols are still widely used, no?

Not ftp:, but news: and gopher: and the other obscure ones.

They aren't used a lot and some of them do not work at all currently.

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