bug#11469: 24.1.50; url-retrieve with PUT method fails every two times

[Takafumi Arakaki]

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I found some probelem using url-retrieve.  To reproduce the probelem you
can use the following snippet:

(let ((url "http://127.0.0.1:9999/";)
      (url-request-method "PUT")
      (url-request-extra-headers '(("Content-Type" . "application/json")))
      (url-request-data "[1 2 3]"))
  (url-retrieve url (lambda (status))))

I am executing the above snippet (using eval-last-sexp at the end of the
exnippet) and it fails every two times (it succeeds and then fails and
then succeeds and then ...).  I got this message when it fails:

error in process sentinel: url-http-end-of-document-sentinel: Symbol's
value as variable is void: url-request-method
error in process sentinel: Symbol's value as variable is void:
url-request-method

I checked above with emacs started by emacs-snapshot -Q.

Furthremore, in some case I have url-request-method set to nil at global
lavel (M-: url-request-method RET gives nil).  And in this case, GET
method is used instead.  I guess this is because of
"(or url-request-method "GET")" in url-http.

I guess it won't matter, but I am using Python tornado as a web server
to check the behavior.  This is the test server I am using:

import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web


class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):

    def get(self):
        print "GET"
        print self.request.body
        self.write("Hello, world")
        self.finish()

    def put(self):
        print "PUT"
        print self.request.body
        self.set_status(204)
        self.finish()


application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r"/", MainHandler),
])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    application.listen(9999)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()


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In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0)
 of 2012-04-10 on mercury, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 2:20120410-1~ppa1~maverick1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000
Configured using:
 `configure '--build' 'i686-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i686-linux-gnu'
 '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
 '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
 '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
 
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp'
 '--without-compress-info' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib//' '--with-x=yes'
 '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-imagemagick=yes'
 'build_alias=i686-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i686-linux-gnu'
 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g
 -Wl,--as-needed -znocombreloc' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f C-y <return> C-x C-f <up> <backspace> <backspace>
p <tab> <return> C-x b <return> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-e C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
C-n C-n C-e C-x C-e C-x C-e C-x C-e C-e C-f C-p C-p
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p M-m C-p C-f C-p C-s C-w
C-w C-w C-s C-s C-n C-a C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n
C-n C-e C-n C-e C-x C-e C-x C-e C-n C-p C-n C-n C-e
C-p C-e C-p C-p C-e C-p C-p C-p C-p C-e C-p C-e C-n
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-e C-p C-e M-x e <backspace>
b u g - r e <tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> e m a <tab> b <tab> C-g M-x r e p o <tab>
r <tab> <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
(buffer-string) =
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Server: TornadoServer/2.2
 [2 times]
byte-code: End of buffer [2 times]
Making completion list...
Quit
Making completion list... [2 times]

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/debian-startup hides
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/site-lisp/cmake-data/cmake-mode hides
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/rst hides /usr/share/emacs/24.1.50/lisp/textmodes/rst

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