Subject: bug#36773: 27.0.50; Accessing a cached SVG with eww can cause Emacs to crash

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:38:07 +0200

Pip Cet <[email-masked]> writes:

> As for the other bug, it's a little tricky: shr calls
> url-store-in-cache after url-http-parse-headers has decompressed the
> file, while url-http-parse-headers itself would (correctly) cache the
> uncompressed file if it were configured to do so. It's not quite clear
> who's at fault here.

Perhaps url-store-in-cache should take a parameter to remove the
Content-Encoding header (i.e. "gzip")?  It should really be up to the
program that uses url.el (i.e. shr) whether to cache the data or not...

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