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25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el

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From: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: 23750 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 08:15:26 +0800

On 2016-06-19 21:36 +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> This particular bug came from this:
>
> "Content-length: " (number-to-string (length url-http-data))
>
> Which gives wrong value when url-http-data is multibyte (it should be
> length in bytes). So then, the HTTP server on the other side saw the
> wrong body length and truncated the body when reading the request.

As Dmitry mentioned earlier json-encode in 25.1 produces multibyte
strings and makes it easier to hit this bug when consuming JSON API's.
There are three parties that are suspicious: 1) JSON API server 2)
JSON.el 3) URL. It took me a while to realise it's URL's fault IOW the
bug isn't easy to debug. This is somewhat related to changes brought in
by 25.1.

Leo

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