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25.1.50; eww: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size

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From: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1.50; eww: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:34:45 +0530

M-x eww http://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/utf8/pmuni0003_01.html

Contacting host: www.projectmadurai.org:80
error in process filter: shr-descend: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
error in process filter: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size

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In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5)
 of 2015-12-08
Repository revision: 8f725564b6b546c9660551327cecb97c5a362e13
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (jessie)

Message #8 received at 22117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
To: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22117: 25.1.50;
 eww: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:05:22 +1100

Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com> writes:

> M-x eww 
> http://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/utf8/pmuni0003_01.html
>
> Contacting host: www.projectmadurai.org:80 error in process 
> filter: shr-descend: Variable binding depth exceeds 
> max-specpdl-size error in process filter: Variable binding depth 
> exceeds max-specpdl-size

The W3 markup validator service reports 104 errors in the markup 
of that page:

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.projectmadurai.org%2Fpm_etexts%2Futf8%2Fpmuni0003_01.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=HTML+3.2&group=0

Looking at the markup, some issues that i'm guessing might 
contribute to the above error are:

* Two opening `body' tags on lines 14 and 15, without any 
accompanying closing `/body' tags;

* An opening `dd' on line 44, without any accompanying closing 
`/dd' tag.

As i understand it, major browsers like Firefox and Chrom(e|ium) 
need substantial amounts of code to (relatively) gracefully handle 
malformed HTML; someone familiar with `shr.el' might like to 
comment on the cost/benefit ratio of writing code to handle the 
malformed HTML in this instance.


Alexis.

Message #11 received at 22117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
Cc: vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com, 22117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22117: 25.1.50;
 eww: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 05:41:53 +0200

> From: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:05:22 +1100
> Cc: 22117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> As i understand it, major browsers like Firefox and Chrom(e|ium) 
> need substantial amounts of code to (relatively) gracefully handle 
> malformed HTML; someone familiar with `shr.el' might like to 
> comment on the cost/benefit ratio of writing code to handle the 
> malformed HTML in this instance.

Just increasing max-specpdl-size to 3000 makes the problem go away for
me.

Message #14 received at 22117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22117 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22117: 25.1.50;
 eww: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 06:20:15 +0100

Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com> writes:

> M-x eww http://www.projectmadurai.org/pm_etexts/utf8/pmuni0003_01.html
>
> Contacting host: www.projectmadurai.org:80
> error in process filter: shr-descend: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
> error in process filter: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size

This should now be fixed on the Emacs trunk.

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