Re: HTTP redirects make url-retrieve-synchronously asynchronous

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> url-retrieve-synchronously becomes asynchronous when HTTP redirects are
>>> involved.  When it encounters a redirect, url-http-parse-headers calls
>>> url-retrieve instead of url-retrieve-synchronously.  Naively switching to
>>> the latter doesn't solve the problem and I haven't been able to find a fix..
>> I believe I've fixed the problem with the patch below.
> Thanks, but this doesn't fix it for me.

Hmm... it does for me.  Have you recompiled the file?

> In my original post I didn't make it completely clear that you have to set
> mm-url-use-external to nil.

That was obvious enough, otherwise the URL library isn't used.
I actually reproduced your problem while directly calling
url-retrieve-synchronously and the patch fixed the problem for me.


        Stefan