Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.12.2016 17:29, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> This is going to break many current callers.  Most people aren't doing
> anything as weird as trying to transmit non-ASCII text via any of these
> headers (it's a very uncommon thing to do), but are just passing in
> normal Emacs strings (containing nothing by ASCII, as is proper).

Do you have some examples?

> These will all fail if you do this, for no real gain.

That's debatable.

> Sorry to keep harping on about this, but the current url-* interface is
> inadequate.  We should leave it be and move on to create a new,
> well-defined url-fetching interface.

I'm sure a well-defined interface will need to have a required 
"encoding" step, or an argument somewhere, at least.