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24.5; eww does not work (on debian 8)

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From: dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; eww does not work (on debian 8)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:19:26 +0200

I'm on debian 8 with self compiled Emacsen (emacs -Q) and just doing M-x
eww and type as keyword for example: emacs

I'm getting (also with emacs-25.0.50): 

Contacting host: duckduckgo.com:443
url-cookie-generate-header-lines: Wrong type argument: listp, \.\.\.
error in process sentinel: url-cookie-generate-header-lines: Wrong type argument: listp, \.\.\.




In GNU Emacs 24.5.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5)
 of 2015-07-26 on urmel
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (jessie)

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-pair-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  global-hl-line-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  server-mode: t
  minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent messages:
Quit
Saving file /home/dieter/emacs/repo/lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.el...
Wrote /home/dieter/emacs/repo/lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.el
Please type y, n, or !: y
Undo!
Mark set
Scanning for dabbrevs...done
Expansion found in 'simple.el'
Saving file /home/dieter/emacs/repo/lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.el...
Wrote /home/dieter/emacs/repo/lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.el
Quit [3 times]

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-- 
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany

Message #8 received at 21370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
Cc: 21370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21370: 24.5; eww does not work (on debian 8)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:27:43 -0400

H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:

> url-cookie-generate-header-lines: Wrong type argument: listp, \.\.\.

My crystal ball says that you have cached url data in a file (eg
url-cookie-file) and it has somehow ended up with abbreviated "..."
printed output. So probably you should find and delete it.

Message #11 received at 21370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
Cc: 21370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21370: 24.5; eww does not work (on debian 8)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:32:34 -0400

Glenn Morris wrote:

> H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
>
>> url-cookie-generate-header-lines: Wrong type argument: listp, \.\.\.
>
> My crystal ball says that you have cached url data in a file (eg
> url-cookie-file) and it has somehow ended up with abbreviated "..."
> printed output. So probably you should find and delete it.

Ie, this is http://debbugs.gnu.org/16805, which I see was fixed for the
next release, 25.1, but never closed.

Message #16 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21370: 24.5; eww does not work (on debian 8)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:11:17 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
>
>> url-cookie-generate-header-lines: Wrong type argument: listp, \.\.\.
>
> My crystal ball says that you have cached url data in a file (eg
> url-cookie-file) and it has somehow ended up with abbreviated "..."
> printed output. So probably you should find and delete it.
>

Thanks a lot Glenn!

I didn't know about the url-cookie-file mechanism.  I deleted the file
(you can see the offending ... characters below) and eww works again for
me.

I asked this question in StackExchange as well, may I answer my own
question in your name?

http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/15020/eww-error-in-process-sentinel-url-cookie-generate-header-lines-wrong-type-arg


         Dieter

----------------------------------------------------------------------

;; Emacs-W3 HTTP cookies file
;; Automatically generated file!!! DO NOT EDIT!!!

(setq url-cookie-storage

  < here clipped >

  [url-cookie "h4" "1|ck=1" "Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:34:49 +0100" "/" ".bbc.co.uk" nil])
 ...)
)
(setq url-cookie-secure-storage
 '((".github.com"
  [url-cookie "logged_in" "no" "19-Nov-2034 06:40:02.00 GMT" "/" ".github.com" t]
  [url-cookie "HttpOnly" nil "19-Nov-2034 06:40:02.00 GMT" "/" ".github.com" t]))
)

;; Local Variables:
;; version-control: never
;; no-byte-compile: t
;; End:


>
>
>

-- 
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany

Message #19 received at 21370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
Cc: 21370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21370: 24.5; eww does not work (on debian 8)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:24:49 -0400

H. Dieter Wilhelm wrote:

> I didn't know about the url-cookie-file mechanism.  I deleted the file
> (you can see the offending ... characters below) and eww works again for
> me.

BTW, I actually thought that cookies were not saved by default, since
url-cookie-file defaults to nil. But 'url-do-setup' sets it non-nil,
which is ugly. Perhaps Someone feels like tidying it up (moving the init
to the defvar, with :set-after url-configuration-directory, etc.)

> I asked this question in StackExchange as well, may I answer my own
> question in your name?

Of course, feel free.

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