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Re: more url-utils?


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: more url-utils?
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:21:37 +0200

2011/5/16 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:07:49 +0200 address@hidden wrote:
>
> j> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> After looking at many examples in Emacs, I can't find or think of any
>>>>>> need for the headers *as text* in the code I've seen.  I would:
> SM> That sounds right.
>>>> ...so can I go ahead with my proposal or would you rather be
>>>> conservative and keep the old behavior, making API users turn off
>>>> headers explicitly?
>>>
>>> There are 3 parts.
>>> - removal of header text.
>>> - backward compatibility.
>>> - providing header info in a non-textual format.
>>>
>>> All three are important.
>
> j> Teds proposal addresses all three concerns right?
> j> - The new API does what coders expect, no information is lost
> j> - the old api is retained but marked obsolete
> j> - headers are accessible in alist format
>
> j> Its more work but Teds volunteered to do it. Great!
>
> I don't think marking the old API obsolete will preserve backwards
> compatibility.  But if Stefan thinks so, I'll do it according to my
> proposal.  Otherwise he'll have to decide what the API will be.
>
> I don't mind the extra work if it improves Emacs.  Right now using
> url-*.el to just get some data is pretty painful compared to Perl's LWP,
> for instance.

Yes, it is pretty painful and hardly documented. Take for example
url-http-parse-headers. Anyone can say what it does by just reading
the doc string?

Improvements will save a lot of time!



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