GNU bug report logs - #53792
add timeout option to url-retrieve

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From: emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
 the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: add timeout option to url-retrieve
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 05:36:59 +0000

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Async fecthes can get stuck too, so add a timeout option to url-retrieve too,
like the one for url-retrieve-synchronously.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 53792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53792: add timeout option to url-retrieve
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 07:43:20 +0100

emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com> writes:

> Async fecthes can get stuck too, so add a timeout option to  url-retrieve too, 
> like the one for  url-retrieve-synchronously.

See url-queue-retrieve and url-queue-timeout.

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From: emacsq <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 53792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53792: add timeout option to url-retrieve
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 07:02:12 +0000

>
> See url-queue-retrieve and url-queue-timeout.
>

Thanks, I guess it solves the timeout issue, but
this is the first time I discovered that the url
package has its own manual.

Shouldn't the Elisp manual mention this library as
a high level networking library for fetching urls?

I checked the networking section and it starts with
TCP and UDP connections. It would be useful to have
some mention there of the existence of higher level
functions to fetch urls and a link to the URL
library.

I tried the index too with the word 'url' and there
is no match, so someone reading the manual has
no chance of discovering the url package
from the  elisp manual networking section.

I checked this on emacs 27.1

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