RE: [External] : Re: What does the error "Process <URL> not running" mean?

[Drew Adams]

> > > What does this error mean? I asked emacs to fetch an url,
> > > not start a process
> > Yeah but I think that's what it does ...
> 
> It may do that in the background, I meant from the user
> point of view I told emacs to fetch an url, so it telling
> me some process is not running does not help me as a user
> to know what the problem is.
> 
> > > so why does it tell me this and how can I know from this
> > > what the actual error is?
> I have a document with hundreds of urls in it which needs
> to be checked if they are still  alive and well, so I
> fetched them one by one with a code like this:
> 
> (condition-case errmsg (url-retrieve...

`C-h f url-retrieve' tells you that it invokes
processes.

Granted, you're getting an error msg reported
from a process, not a "higher-level" msg from
`url-retrieve' itself.  But at least that doc
tells you that you're running processes.