URL request timeout - Error retrieving book number XYZ

[stewmehr]

Hi there,

trying to launch speed-type via M-x speed-type-text fails consistently with the error message in the issue title. The workaround of switching from https to http as recommended in #3 does not solve my problem either.

I am afraid that this issue cannot be blamed on speed-type as I cannot access any of the https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/%d/pg%d.txt links at all from inside emacs. I have noticed that these book links open just fine in my browser, so I played around a bit with the request timeout time; alas, to no avail. The following snippet which attempts to download "Ulyisses", i.e. book 4300, fails as well, despite a timeout threshold of 60s.

(let ((url (speed-type--gb-url 4300))
     (url-request-method "GET"))
  (url-retrieve-synchronously url nil nil 60))

Has anybody else had similar issues recently?

[dakra]

Strange. Can you download other things from insisde Emacs or only not gutenberg.de? What OS and Emacs version are you on?
One possible workaround would be to simply download the books manually and placing them in the correct folder.

[stewmehr]

I am on macos 13.6.1 using Emacs 29.1.

The problem seems to be limited to gutenberg.org, so I guess I'll just have to download the resources manually :)

Can we leave this issue open for a little while so that other users facing the same problem can find it?

[pkradiator]

I have the exact same issue. And I am on macos 11.7.9 using Emacs 29.4

[dakra]

@pkradiator So the snippet from @stewmehr

(let ((url (speed-type--gb-url 4300))
     (url-request-method "GET"))
  (url-retrieve-synchronously url nil nil 60))

also doesn't work for you? Result is just a timeout?!

Can you access https://www.gutenberg.org/ in eww or something?

[pkradiator]

The snippet

(let ((url (speed-type--gb-url 4300))
     (url-request-method "GET"))
  (url-retrieve-synchronously url nil nil 60))

prints the Message

#<buffer  *http www.gutenberg.org:443*-77666>

But I can access https://www.gutenberg.org/ in eww

[dakra]

What's the content of this buffer?