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30.0.92; Gnus nnatom: url protocol

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From: Daniel Semyonov <daniel <at> dsemy.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: christopher <at> librehacker.com, 74857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#74857: 30.0.92; Gnus nnatom: url protocol
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 01:35:36 +0200

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes:

    >> From: Daniel Semyonov <daniel <at> dsemy.com>
    >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  Christopher Howard
    >> <christopher <at> librehacker.com>,  74857 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
    >> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:12:31 +0200
    >> 
    >> >>>>> Stefan Kangas writes:
    >> 
    >> > Daniel Semyonov via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
    >> > text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:
    >> 
    >> >> This is a known issue (also noted in the manual), though the message
    >> >> returned should be more descriptive.
    >> >> 
    >> >> The returned message is emitted by Gnus when it fails to get info for
    >> >> the server from the backend, and should use the value of
    >> >> 'backend-status-string' ('nnatom-status-string' in this case); this
    >> >> works on a normal session on my end (returning a message set in
    >> >> 'nnatom--read-feed'), but fails with emacs -Q, also returning "Couldn't
    >> >> request list: nil".
    >> >> I half suspect this is a bug with Gnus trying to read the status string
    >> >> of the wrong server (and not a bug in nnatom), but I'll look into it.
    >> >> 
    >> >> As for why it isn't allowed in the first place, Gnus unfortunately
    >> >> breaks when ":" is used in server addresses due to regular expressions
    >> >> used in various internal functions, though I don't remember the details.
    >> 
    >> > Does nnatom use http or https by default in these situations?
    >> 
    >> nnatom always uses https, feeds available only over http are not
    >> supported at all currently (unless they are downloaded separately, and
    >> added to nnatom as a file instead of a URL).
    >> This is something I wanted to address at some point but honestly forgot
    >> about it, though I'm not sure how important it is TBH; adding a server
    >> variable controlling this would be fairly easy to do, I think.
    >> 
    >> In any case I still haven't had time to look into the issue with the
    >> wrong returned message, I'll look into both issues in a few days
    >> (hopefully).

    > Daniel, did you have time to look into this?

Not yet, sorry.

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