bug#15905: 24.3; url-copy-file sometimes silently downloads garbage or incomplete file

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

>> this may be something about Mac OS X specifically.
>
> It's only gnutls-cli specific: I built Emacs 24.3 on Debian
> --without-gnutls and got similar results; it also seemed like Emacs
> was getting stuck in some CPU burning loop, I eventually C-g'd out of
> it.
>
> gnutls-cli version 3.2.12

I'm not sure this is worth fixing -- perhaps the best would be to remove
the support for external TLS programs.  Especially since they don't hook
into the Network Security Manager.  A couple of the "blocking" bug
reports are about that...

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