Re: url library and GnuTLS, and Emacs-issued certificates

[Chong Yidong]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

>>  - Changed the default connection type to `default' (no encryption), so
>>    that open-protocol-stream with no arguments will be equivalent to
>>    open-network-stream.
>
> But it already is.  If you don't supply a `capability-command'
> parameter, it doesn't try to do any upgrades.

That is poor semantics---it means that "type" is not really determined
by :type, but by some combination of :type and the other arguments that
may or may not be present.

> But it does break existing Gnus users pretty badly.

In what way?  Unless I missed something, the existing callers to
open-protocol-stream now provide :type values that give exactly the same
behavior as before.