changeset 59329:75e5456e5a43

(url-http-handle-authentication): Don't kill the current buffer.

--- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE	Mon Jan 03 20:46:22 2005 +0000
+++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE	Mon Jan 03 21:00:07 2005 +0000
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
 
 ** Fix up url-ldap.el.
 
+** url/*.el has lots of `(declare (special ...))' which
+are meaningless.  What's that trying to do?
+
 * BUGS
 
 ** Incomplete overlay mouse-face highlight bug (Ralf Angeli, Oct 18)
@@ -62,42 +65,6 @@
 I think in the near future we will see more of this problem, so it might be
 time to make anfe-ftp more intelligent.
 
-** Bug in url-http-parse-headers, reported in
-From: Vivek Dasmohapatra <[e-mail]>
-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.
-
-
 
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