Re: url-cache - (require 'url)

[David Reitter]

On 3 Jan 2006, at 15:54, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Could you make a proper bug report?  I have no idea what you've  
> done to get
> the above messages, so it's kind of hard to debug it.

I wouldn't consider it a bug -- but the messages in the echo area and  
in *Messages* make url-retrieve less useful in a programmatic usage  
context, where I don't want to annoy the user with unnecessary warnings.
Again, the warnings that appear are

/Users/dr/.emacs.d/url/history does not exist.
Could not load cookie file /Users/dr/.emacs.d/url/cookies

I have no ~/.emacs.d/url directory. The warnings appear only upon  
first invocation of the below code.

I can reproduce with a plain current Emacs (2006-01-02) and the  
following code:


(defun test-done ()
  (switch-to-buffer retr-buffer))

(require 'url)
(let ((url "http://www.gnu.org/";)
      (url-automatic-caching nil)
      (url-standalone-mode nil)
      (url-show-status nil)
      (url-history-track nil)
      (url-confirmation-func (lambda (x) t)))
; HTTP-GET

(setq retr-buffer
      (url-retrieve url
                    'test-done  nil)))


PS.: If url-retrieve is the highest entry point, shouldn't it be  
autoload?