GNU bug report logs - #34607
url-retrieve-synchronously: TIMEOUT option value takes no effect

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Bad Blue Bull <ibmbull <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 34607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 34607 <34607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Bad Blue Bull <ibmbull <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#34607: (no subject)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:42:34 +0200

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

> On 15.05.2019 7:08, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> On timeouts, url-retrive-synchronously should abort the entire thing,
>> but url-retrieve (which is used in the background) doesn't really
>> support that...
>
> I think that's one of the reasons behind url-retrieve-synchronously's
> two delete-process calls. They don't exactly seem to work as intended, 
> though.

Yeah, they don't trigger on timeouts, apparently.

I've now added some more process deletions, which fixes this use case:

(with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://gnu.org" nil t  0.1)
  (kill-buffer))

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