GNU bug report logs - #36773
27.0.50; Accessing a cached SVG with eww can cause Emacs to crash

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: adam plaice <plaice.adam+lists <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Plaice <plaiceadam <at> gmail.com>, 36773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36773: 27.0.50; Accessing a cached SVG with eww can cause Emacs to crash
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:38:07 +0200

Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com> 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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