Subject: bug#38713: 27.0.50; eww doesn't handle protocols other than https?

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:26:29 +0100

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. M-x eww RET about:protocols RET hangs with the following line:
>
> Loading http://about:protocols/...
>
> whereas after applying the following patch it displays the nicely
> formatted HTML page:
>
>   Supported Protocols - URL vEmacs
>    Protocol   Properties   Description
>    about   Synchronous  N/A
>      Default Port: 0
>    ...

I'm not sure that makes much sense, really.  Emacs has other ways of
documenting these things other than putting them in an about:
pseudo-protocol thing.  (While other browsers do not.)

eww does not support everything that the url* library does, and
shouldn't.

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