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25.0.90; url-retrieve ignores url-mime-accept-string and most other url variables

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From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.90; url-retrieve ignores url-mime-accept-string and most other
 url variables
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 14:51:58 -0400

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The doc string of url-retrieve says:

> The variables ‘url-request-data’, ‘url-request-method’ and
> ‘url-request-extra-headers’ can be dynamically bound around the
> request; dynamic binding of other variables doesn’t necessarily
> take effect.

It seems that there is no way to set ‘url-mime-encoding-string’, ‘url-mime-charset-string’, and ‘url-mime-accept-string’ for a single asynchronous query (things work with ‘url-retrieve-synchronously’, but not with ‘url-retrieve’).

More precisely: this sends a query with ‘Accept: */*’, and prints nil:

    (let ((url-mime-accept-string "abc/def"))
      (url-retrieve "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
                    (lambda (&rest _)
                      (message "url-retrieve: %S"
                               url-mime-accept-string))))

but this sends a query with ‘Accept: abc/def’, and prints “abc/def”:

    (let ((url-mime-accept-string "abc/def"))
      (with-current-buffer
          (url-retrieve-synchronously
           "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/")
        (message "url-retrieve: %S"
                 url-mime-accept-string)))

If this is exepcted, could we document the proper way to set an Accept header?

Clément.

In GNU Emacs 25.0.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8)
 of 2016-02-23 built on clem-w50-mint
Repository revision: f1dc3dc63ae4e454ca0e98eebbd80f0ba9d5c356
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
System Description:	Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa

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Message #8 received at 23253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com>
Cc: 23253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23253: 25.0.90;
 url-retrieve ignores url-mime-accept-string and most other url
 variables
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 06:38:06 +0200

Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel <at> live.com> writes:

> It seems that there is no way to set ‘url-mime-encoding-string’, ‘url-mime-charset-string’, and ‘url-mime-accept-string’ for a single asynchronous query (things work with ‘url-retrieve-synchronously’, but not with ‘url-retrieve’).
>
> More precisely: this sends a query with ‘Accept: */*’, and prints nil:
>
>     (let ((url-mime-accept-string "abc/def"))
>       (url-retrieve "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
>                     (lambda (&rest _)
>                       (message "url-retrieve: %S"
>                                url-mime-accept-string))))

I tried this, and I got

url-retrieve: "abc/def"

so this has apparently been fixed in Emacs 27?  Closing the bug.

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