bug#21936: 25.1.50; Can't start eww: (args-out-of-range "" 0)

[Michael Heerdegen]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> How did you get that cookie?

>From using Wikipedia, but something "went wrong" there.

I was visiting a page like

  https://www.wikipedia.org/?search=Dssd

I entered a string in the search field, hit RET, and got an error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Could not create connection to 
.wikipedia.org:443")
  signal(error ("Could not create connection to .wikipedia.org:443"))
  error("Could not create connection to %s:%d" ".wikipedia.org" 443)
  url-http([cl-struct-url "https" nil nil ".wikipedia.org" nil 
"/wiki/Special:Search?search=dssd&go=Go" nil nil t nil t] eww-render 
((:redirect "https://.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dssd&go=Go";) 
"https://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?go=Go&family=wikipedia&search=dssd";
 nil #<buffer *eww*>) nil tls)
  url-https([cl-struct-url "https" nil nil ".wikipedia.org" nil 
"/wiki/Special:Search?search=dssd&go=Go" nil nil t nil t] eww-render 
((:redirect "https://.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dssd&go=Go";) 
"https://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?go=Go&family=wikipedia&search=dssd";
 nil #<buffer *eww*>))
  
url-retrieve-internal("https://.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dssd&go=Go";
 eww-render ((:redirect 
"https://.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dssd&go=Go";) 
"https://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?go=Go&family=wikipedia&search=dssd";
 nil #<buffer *eww*>) nil nil)
  url-http-parse-headers()
  url-http-content-length-after-change-function(643 664 21)
  url-http-wait-for-headers-change-function(98 683 585)
  url-http-generic-filter(#<process www.wikipedia.org<1>> "html; charset=utf-8
\nContent-Length: 20
\nConnection: keep-alive
\nX-Powered-By: HHVM/3.6.5
\nLocation: https://.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dssd&go=Go
\nVary: X-Forwarded-Proto
\nContent-Encoding: gzip
\nX-Varnish: 2774979456, 614302761, 2380896722 2379873777
\nVia: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
\nAccept-Ranges: bytes
\nAge: 741
\nX-Cache: cp1054 miss (0), cp3013 miss (0), cp3008 frontend hit (4)
\nStrict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
\nX-Analytics: WMF-Last-Access=17-Nov-2015;https=1
\nX-Client-IP: 90.186.1.190
\n
\n\213")

I ignored the error and hit RET again, and landed on this page:

  
http:////www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?go=Go&family=wikipedia&search=dssd

that says

  Domain not configured

  This domain points to a Wikimedia Foundation server, but is not
  configured on this server.  That’s all we know.

After that, I had that empty cookie.


Michael.