Re: more url-utils?

[Chong Yidong]

address@hidden writes:

> Would the defun below be suitable to include in url-util?
> You nearly always want to work with the data part of the document.
> The code snippet below occurs a lot in different packages.
>
> A wrapper that downloads a file(like curl or wget) would be nice also.
>
> (defun org-feed-skip-http-headers (buffer)
>   "Remove HTTP headers from BUFFER, and return it.
> Assumes headers are indeed present!"
>   (with-current-buffer buffer
>     (widen)
>     (goto-char (point-min))
>     (search-forward "\n\n")
>     (delete-region (point-min) (point))
>     buffer))

Good idea, though maybe the wrapper function should incorporate
url-http-parse-response too (see the package-handle-response function in
package.el).  Please feel free to propose a patch.