Re: url-retrieve-synchronously randomly fails on https URLs (patch included)

[Riccardo Murri]

Il 2007-11-05, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>> +      ;; XXX: we have no way of knowing if the STARTTLS handshake
>> +      ;; sequence has completed successfully, because `gnutls` will
>> +      ;; only report failure.
>> +      (sequence line-start "\*\*\* Starting TLS handshake\n"))))))
>
> I also installed the following patch, because I think the above comment
> was incorrect.
>

That comment's purpose was to point out that there might be cases in
which `open-tls-stream' will exit successfully, returning the buffer
to the caller (as all of `tls-success' and `tls-end-of-info' matched),
*still* the TLS connection failed.


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