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diff admin/FOR-RELEASE @ 58282:7c3f5740a5cc
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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:31:19 +0000 |
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--- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE Tue Nov 16 17:30:48 2004 +0000 +++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE Tue Nov 16 17:31:19 2004 +0000 @@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ * NEW FEATURES -** Test the mbox branch of Rmail. - -** Install the mbox branch of Rmail. - ** Face remapping. ** Let mouse-1 follow links. @@ -36,6 +32,45 @@ ** Clean up flymake.el to follow Emacs Lisp conventions. +* BUGS + +** Bug in url-http-parse-headers, reported in +From: Vivek Dasmohapatra <vivek@zeus.com> +Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:13:13 +0100 + +Fetching a url with url-retrieve can reult in an anrbitrary buffer +being killed if a 401 (or possibly a 407) result is encountered: + +url-http-parse-headers calls url-http-handle-authentication, +which can call url-retrieve. + +This results in the current buffer being killed, and a new http buffer +being generated. However, when the old http buffer is killed, emacs +picks the top buffer from the list as the new current buffer, so by the +time we get to the end of url-http-parse-headers, _that_ buffer is marked +as dead even though it is not necessarily a url buffer, so next time the +url libraries reap their dead buffers, an innocent bystander buffer is +killed instead (and an obsolete http buffer may be left lying around too). + +A possible fix (which I am currently using) is to call set-buffer +on the return value of url-http-parse-headers: + + (case url-http-response-status + (401 + ;; The request requires user authentication. The response + ;; MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field containing a + ;; challenge applicable to the requested resource. The + ;; client MAY repeat the request with a suitable + ;; Authorization header field. + (url-mark-buffer-as-dead (current-buffer)) + (set-buffer (url-http-handle-authentication nil))) +etc .... + +which makes sure that it is the right http buffer that is current when +we come to mark the http buffers as dead. + + + * GTK RELATED BUGS ** Make GTK scrollbars behave like others w.r.t. overscrolling. @@ -237,7 +272,7 @@ lispref/compile.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/control.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/customize.texi -lispref/debugging.texi +lispref/debugging.texi Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se> lispref/display.texi lispref/edebug.texi lispref/elisp.texi "Luc Teirlinck"