GNU bug report logs - #23750
25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 02:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.95

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 23750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 23750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 13:55:15 -0400

>> ยน  https://github.com/ternjs/tern/issues/719
> Investigation shows that the problem occurs when url-http-data is multibyte
> and (length url-http-data) differs from (length (string-as-unibyte
> url-http-data)), because we send a wrong value in Content-length.
> Changing url-http-create-request like this will make the problem more
> obvious for anyone else that hits it, patch attached.
> Stefan, did you have a particular situation in mind where this might be bad,
> when you wrote the FIXME?

No, nothing in particular.  Just that `string-as-unibyte` is generally
synonymous with "the author is confused about how coding systems work",
aka "trouble".


        Stefan
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