Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; writes: The only thing you would need would be the URL package, and if you want _seriously_ stripped down HTTP functionality, you don't even need that. If you remove things like authentication, cookies, and stuff like that, the CORE HTTP functionality of Emacs/W3 is less than 600 lines of code, and could be easily stripped out into an 'http-lite.el' I agree that using HTTP instead of EFS is probably a win, especially on windows w/o cygwin. -Bill P.