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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 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 15:55:09 +0300

> From: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:51:16 +0000
> Cc: Adam Plaice <plaiceadam <at> gmail.com>, 36773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > 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...
> 
> I misread what you wrote at first, but I like my misreading better:
> url-handle-content-transfer-encoding modifies the message, but not its
> headers. Why shouldn't it do both?

Yes, I think it should.  Because that's the root cause of the problem:
the data is uncompressed, but the headers still say it is compressed.

Thanks.

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