Yes, it did happen, and is fairly usable right now. Some weirdness with caching, but I think I have those fixed on my laptop right now, but no CVS access. The default for 'url-retrieve' is to be asynchronous, but there is a trivial function called url-retrieve-synchronously that wraps around it and returns a buffer or nil. -Bill P. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Wing To: wmperry(a)aventail.com Cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Sent: 12/15/99 2:13 AM Subject: Re: URL retrieval rewrite... Did this ever happen? I agree extremely strongly about adding this functionality to the base. But you really should provide a synchronous interface. History has shown amply the folly of not doing so. ben "William M. Perry" wrote: In the that and stick waiting etc, to have -- In order to save my hands, I am cutting back on my responses, especially to XEmacs-related mail. You _will_ get a response, but please be patient. If you need an immediate response and it is not apparent in your message, please say so. Thanks for your understanding.