GNU bug report logs - #78303
31.0.50; Allow nil as valid value for url-cookie-save-interval per doc and type

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 78303-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jschmidt4gnu <at> vodafonemail.de
Subject: Re: bug#78303: 31.0.50; Allow nil as valid value for
 url-cookie-save-interval per doc and type
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 11:28:09 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu <at> vodafonemail.de>,  78303 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 09:28:49 -0400
> 
> >> [ CC to Stefan, who seems to be the original author of that cookie
> >>   handling thingy ... apologies if that does not really concern you ]
> 
> [ Hmm... Git indeed claims that I added this file back in 2003, but
>   I have no recollection of doing so.  Apparently that applies to all
>   the URL package, so I guess I was the one who added that package to
>   Emacs, tho I can't remember doing that either.
>   FWIW, that package started its life as part of the W3 browser and was
>   written mostly by W3's author, William Perry.
>   You can see that package's earlier history in the `externals/w3`
>   branch of the `elpa.git `repository where the files were named
>   `lisp/url-*.el`.  ]
> 
> > Thanks, my alternative suggestion is below.  Now Stefan gets to choose ;-)
> 
> I'll let you fight it out.  🙂

I've now installed on the master branch a version that merges both
suggestions, and I'm therefore closing this bug.

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