Re: more url-utils?

[Stefan Monnier]

j> Would the defun below be suitable to include in url-util?
j> You nearly always want to work with the data part of the document.
j> The code snippet below occurs a lot in different packages.

j> A wrapper that downloads a file(like curl or wget) would be nice also.

j> (defun org-feed-skip-http-headers (buffer)
> ...

> Yes to both, but like Lars I think the header-skipping should be an
> option for the current API and not a new function.

While Emacs uses them a lot, dynamically-scoped variables used as
implicit extra parameters are bad.  In many cases, it's difficult to
avoid using them, but in this case, calling a function after the
url-retrieve call works just as well, so there's no excuse.


        Stefan