bug#17549: 24.4.50; regression: url-insert-file-contents

[Leo Liu]

On 2014-06-24 08:49 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Does this affect emacs-24 as well?  If so, for emacs-24, it's OK, but
> for trunk we want something better.
>
>
>         Stefan

Yes, this is a bug in emacs-24 as well.

On 2014-06-24 14:58 +0200, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> AFAIK, we are not yet ready to release emacs-24, so it'd be better to find
> a fix than revert.

I am not against a thorough solution but I think leaving this broken for
months can be problematic. Secondly that code moved from package.el
might be a quick dirty hack anyway, a quick look at url-http seems to
suggest it is repeating some work already done by
url-retrieve-synchronously.

Leo