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bug#38713: 27.0.50; eww doesn't handle protocols other than https?
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#38713: 27.0.50; eww doesn't handle protocols other than https? |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:26:29 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. M-x eww RET about:protocols RET hangs with the following line:
>
> Loading http://about:protocols/...
>
> whereas after applying the following patch it displays the nicely
> formatted HTML page:
>
> Supported Protocols - URL vEmacs
> Protocol Properties Description
> about Synchronous N/A
> Default Port: 0
> ...
I'm not sure that makes much sense, really. Emacs has other ways of
documenting these things other than putting them in an about:
pseudo-protocol thing. (While other browsers do not.)
eww does not support everything that the url* library does, and
shouldn't.
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