Re: url-retrieve fails on most HTTPS sites

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On 2020-09-29 at 01:41:24 +0200,
Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> Re: url-retrieve fails on most HTTPS sites
> 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE wrote:
> 
> > On 2020-09-29 at 01:13:51 +0200,
> > Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text
> > editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Nicolas Graner wrote:
> >> 
> >> >   (switch-to-buffer (url-retrieve
> >> > "https://wikipedia.org/"; '(lambda (&rest ignore))))
> >> >
> >> > The buffer that shows up is empty.
> >> 
> >> Never heard of `url-retrieve' but I have it and yes,
> >> what "shows up is empty".
> >
> > It works for me.  Sort of.
> >
> > I ran (url-retrieve "https://wikipedia.org/";
> > (lambda (&rest ignore))) in my *scratch* buffer,
> > and watched carefully.
> >
>      (url-retrieve
>       "https://wikipedia.org/";
>       (lambda (&rest ignore)))
>      #<buffer  *http wikipedia.org:443*>
> 
> I search downwards for some sign, signals aren't
> strong enough, perhaps?

At first, I could have sworn that url-retrieve inserted the name of a
second buffer in my *scratch* buffer, but I can't reproduce that now.
It all happened so fast the first time, so maybe it was just my
imagination.

In any case, I ran switch-to-buffer and then pressed the space bar and
the TAB key to display all the buffers whose names began with a space,
and one of those buffers was " *http www.wikipedia.org:443*," and that's
how I found it.