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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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 The tests will fail if web-server.el is present but out-of-date, which I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

>> 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.

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