Re: Upstreaming url-http-ntlm.el

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hi,

Spencer made the following suggestion:

Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com> writes:

> It would be nice if url-http-ntlm was packaged with core Emacs, because
> (in my experience) there are lots of corporate proxies which require
> NTLM authentication to even reach the outside internet and thereby
> download packages such as url-http-ntlm.  So there's a chicken and egg
> problem.
>
> Have you considered upstreaming this package, to resolve this problem?

I think this rationale for having url-http-ntlm bundled into the Emacs
release tarball is strong.  Any objections?  If not, in what release
could it be included?  And, what is the procedure for including it?

Thanks,
Thomas