Re: url-retrieve bad handling of redirections

[Lennart Borgman]

Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>    I am using url-retrieve and url-retrieve-synchronously to fetch URLs. 
>    When the web pages fetched are redirected the callback routines are 
>    called with unexpected parameters. I am not quite sure of all the 
>    details but the most common error is that the callback parameter for the 
>    file name to save instead has the redirection url.
>
> What change would you suggest?
Adding a new parameter to the callback routine so that it still can have 
the original outfile as a parameter. That way you could continue from 
the redirect and change the redirected url instead of the original.