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Re: with-url


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: with-url
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 22:31:13 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:52:18 +0100
> 
> > How about :coding-system and :transfer-encoding instead?
> 
> It's the coding system for the data, not the rest of what's transferred,
> so you need the `data' in there...  The headers are each encoded
> according to various other conventions (the Host is punycode, the
> User-Agent is ... er...  I haven't looked up the standard, but I'm
> guessing url-encode).  

If there could be different encodings involved, you need to allow
the caller to specify each one of them separately.

> I think the nomenclature `coding-system' in Emacs is unfortunate

It's too late for that ship.



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