On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Leo Liu <
sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not against a thorough solution but I think leaving this broken for
> months can be problematic.
Sorry. I keep trying to find time to fix this and a few other bugs, but I'm very busy right now.
> 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.
AFAIR, originally I wanted a small change, just throw an error in a specific case, and Stefan pushed for a bigger (though, I suppose, cleaner) fix; there was some back-and-forth and we finally settled on what's installed. So perhaps you can go back, reread the bug thread and find something in the proposed solutions that fixes the original problem and does not cause the one you're reporting.
J