On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 20:53:41 -0800 Ryan <rct@thompsonclan.org> wrote:
R> On Sat Nov 16 15:27:18 2013, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:13:13 -0800 Ryan <rct@thompsonclan.org> wrote:
R> In my experience, somewhere around 10% to 20% of the time the
R> downloaded file has some kind of anomaly. Anomalies that I have
R> observed so far include:
R> - the file is not completely retrieved;
R> - the file is complete, but has the following text appended:
0
- Peer has closed the GnuTLS connection
R> - the file contains only an HTTP header and nothing else:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:54:41 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Status: 200 OK
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-UA-Compatible: chrome=1
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://render.github.com
R> In all cases, "url-copy-file" returns t as if the retrieval was
R> completely successful, so the only way to detect these anomalies is to
R> inspect the file's content.
It's hard to tell from the bug report; can you tell us if your Emacs is
compiled with the GnuTLS library? (the output of `configure' would
help, or tell us where you got the binary).
R> I believe I got my Emacs from http://emacsformacosx.com/. I don't know
R> the configuration details of it.
That build doesn't have GnuTLS support, so you're running an external
binary (`gnutls-cli' or something similar). I haven't seen the problems
you report on Mac OS X (tried with the emacsformacosx build), so it may
be something specific to your system. Can you see if any other users of
the emacsformacosx build can confirm the bug?
Ted