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Re: url.el cookie policy
From: |
Antoine Levitt |
Subject: |
Re: url.el cookie policy |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:39:32 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
03/11/11 23:06, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
> I just discovered that Gnus has been setting (and returning) cookies for
> the images that it fetches via `url-retrieve' and friends. While this
> is no catastrophe, it's probably not an information/tracking thing that
> people would expect to happen when reading stuff via Gnus, I think.
>
> However, switching this behaviour off in Gnus appears to be kinda
> tricky. Since `url-retrieve' (and friends) are asynchronous, and they
> create new buffers, neither binding `url-cookie-untrusted-urls' to
> `(".*")', nor setting it buffer-locally does the trick.
>
> So I would suggest changing the default for `url-cookie-untrusted-urls'
> to `(".*")' for Emacs 24.1, and then reworking the `url-retrieve'
> interface (as previously discussed), and then let it take the cookie
> setting thing as a parameter.
I've been annoyed from time to time by "saving cookies to
~/.emacs.d/url/cookies..." messages. I set url-cookie-file to nil, but
that didn't seem to change anything.
I agree that url should ignore cookies by default. I'd be amazed if
anyone had any use for them in gnus.
- url.el cookie policy, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/11/03
- Re: url.el cookie policy,
Antoine Levitt <=