bug#43566: 27.1; url-http and excorporate does not authenticate

[Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org> writes:
>
>> The tests will fail if web-server.el is present but out-of-date, which I
>> think is unavoidable.  But...
>
> Would it be possible to check the web-server.el version to make this
> more robust?

Michael also asked about this on emacs-devel.  I looked but I can't see
a simple way to do it.  package.el functionality isn't available in this
context.

Besides, I wouldn't really want to require a specific version range of
web-server.el.  Anyone with up-to-date elpa.git won't have the issue you
ran into.  I think elpa main tip and emacs master tip should always be
compatible for these tests from now on.

>>> So the tests should check for that first, otherwise most people are
>>> going to see failing tests.
>>
>> ... I did implement that; can you try moving your elpa checkout
>> somewhere else, or try:
>>
>>     make -C test ntlm-tests GNU_ELPA_DIRECTORY=/nonexistent
>>
>> and confirm you see the tests being skipped?
>
> Yup; they're skipped if I do that.

OK, thanks.

Thomas