Subject: bug#34763: 27.0.50; url-retrieve-synchronously misbehaves inside eldoc-documentation-function

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:07:11 +0200

On 15.03.2019 17:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:24:44 +0200
>>
>> Sounds like an external library problem, maybe?
> 
> GnuTLS?

Except the requests only use HTTP, not HTTPS. So... IDK?

> So it sounds like quitting in the middle of a URL retrieval leaves
> some leftovers that get in the way of additional retrieval attempts.

Maybe so.

>> BUT! I have tried to reproduce this slowdown behavior with a local
>> server, and so far no luck. Ping to Google (or almost any other website)
>> is 100ms from my current location, so maybe it makes a difference.
> 
> Maybe with a local server you aren't fast enough to interrupt the
> transfer before it completes?

I do manage to trigger the "Transfer interrupted" errors, though. So 
maybe not. Or not exactly.