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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> How do you propose to compute the number of transferred octets, given
> that the URL request payload is a string?

Just use `string-bytes' instead of `length'.  This happens to work since
almost all web services expect utf-8, and our strings happen to be
utf-8, too.  (The few callers that are sending a different charset
already presumably know to encode their data, or their applications
would be failing already.)

Yes, it's yucky, but this is an ill-defined function.  And we should
emphasise backwards compatibility instead of breaking people's code, I
think.

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