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

[Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>]

Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org> writes:

> 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 The tests will fail if web-server.el is present but out-of-date, which I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.

Michael wanted a general approach to requiring specific GNU ELPA package
versions; he suggested an implementation which I adapted and pushed to
master.  You can try it by alternating between revisions
a1c767fe56acfed6627682fadc337203f3b8678c and
4edcba28826869b07f622fd83f6aab96fd8e4d19 of web-server.el and confirming
that for the former commit the tests are skipped and for the latter,
they're run.

I also tested how url-retrieve-synchronously behaves with NTLM
authentication when the authinfo password is wrong.  It doesn't
infinite-loop -- it tries once with the authinfo credentials and if they
fail, it prompts the user for a username and password.  Therefore, the
patch that caused the regression isn't needed for NTLM and the
workaround patch I pushed is fine as-is.

I'm marking this bug done.

Thanks,
Thomas