Re: url-retrieve fails on most HTTPS sites

[2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE]

On 2020-09-29 at 06:45:54 +0100,
Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> wrote:

> >>>>> 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE  <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE@potatochowder.com> writes:
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>     > 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.
> 
> Yes, that works for me too. Strange. I wonder why the buffer doesn't appear
> elsewhere, e.g. when Ibuffer is run?

As per the manual¹:

    Buffers that are ephemeral and generally uninteresting to the user
    have names starting with a space, so that the list-buffers and
    buffer-menu commands don’t mention them (but if such a buffer visits
    a file, it is mentioned). A name starting with space also initially
    disables recording undo information; see Undo.

¹ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Buffer-Names.html