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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 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: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:37:35 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 15:19:28 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 19822 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
> 
> > So we can leave the url.el interfaces alone as a backwards-compatible
> > stuff and then pension off the entire url.el machinery in, say, Emacs 34.
> 
> I don't feel very strongly about this, but I'm curious: Why don't you
> want to obsolete at least some of them?  I think they add user
> confusion and are just not very helpful.

How would obsoleting them help avoid that confusion?

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