bug#24117: 25.1; url-http-create-request: Multibyte text in HTTP request

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/11/2016 06:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Not the values we pass to url-http--encode-string in this patch, no. As
> > you said, when the request hits the wire, it has to be unibyte.
>
> Unibyte != ASCII.

Indeed. And the above function converts the latter to the former.

> > Thanks. Can we designate this bug as a blocker?
>
> Why not just push the fix to emacs-25?

Because John likes to question commits in emacs-25 that do not reference 
bugs marked as blocking. See also the recent message in the emacs-devel 
thread.

Anyway, pushed. I'll add some tests to master a bit later.