Re: How many people mark spam in gmane groups?

[Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at>]

Today, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
> (progn
>   (with-temp-buffer
>     (let ((host "spam.gmane.org")) 
>       (or (setq tcp-connection
> 		(open-network-stream 
> 		 "URL ping"
> 		 (buffer-name)
> 		 host
> 		 80))
> 	(error "Could not open connection to %s" host))
>       (set-marker (process-mark tcp-connection) (point-min))
>       (set-process-filter tcp-connection
>       'net-utils-remove-ctrl-m-filter) (process-send-string
>       tcp-connection
> 			   (format "GET /gmane.emacs.help:8479
> 			   HTTP/1.1\nHost: spam.gmane.org\n\n")))))


> It seems correct to me.  Since the temp-buffer gets killed, that will
> kill the network connection as well, right?

The important question is, will this work if the network connection
gets killed before gmane handles the request? This was what made me use
(asynchronous) url-retrieve, which works pretty much like your
solution above, only (seemingly) more asynchronously. (-:

Maybe somebody with knowledge of php can tell us how this kind of error
gets handled or if it is an error at all?

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