bug#34763: 27.0.50; url-retrieve-synchronously misbehaves inside eldoc-documentation-function

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 15.03.2019 17:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: 34763@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:24:44 +0200
> >
> > Sounds like an external library problem, maybe?
>
> GnuTLS?

Except the requests only use HTTP, not HTTPS. So... IDK?

> So it sounds like quitting in the middle of a URL retrieval leaves
> some leftovers that get in the way of additional retrieval attempts.

Maybe so.

> > BUT! I have tried to reproduce this slowdown behavior with a local
> > server, and so far no luck. Ping to Google (or almost any other website)
> > is 100ms from my current location, so maybe it makes a difference.
>
> Maybe with a local server you aren't fast enough to interrupt the
> transfer before it completes?

I do manage to trigger the "Transfer interrupted" errors, though. So 
maybe not. Or not exactly.