GNU bug report logs - #23140
url-package-name and url-package-version are ignored by url-retrieve and url-retrieve-synchronously

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From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: url-package-name and url-package-version are ignored by url-retrieve
 and url-retrieve-synchronously
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:06:47 +0200

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url-package-name and url-package-version are only used in the initializer of the url-user-agent, which is computed when url.el is loaded; this makes these two variables essentially useless; in particular, one can't let-bind them around a call to url-retrieve.

The fix is probably to make url-user-agent accept nil, and make the url-http-user-agent-string function generate the default string every time it is called, based on the current values of url-package-name and url-package-version.

I have some code to do this, but I'd just like to make sure that it's the right approach before I propose a patch.

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