ftp://ftp.xemacs.org doesn't do "PASV" correctly -- makes it tricky to update XEmacs packages from behind a NAT

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Aidan Kehoe writes:
 > 
 >  Ar an triú lá déag de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 
 > 
 >  > Samuel Bronson writes:
 >  > 
 >  >  > All of this wouldn't be much of a problem -- I could still access the
 >  >  > files by http -- except that package installation doesn't support
 >  >  > that.
 >  > 
 >  > We really should fix that.  Patches welcome.
 > 
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 > I?m reasonably sure that SXEmacs can do this, using FFI with curl. And we
 > already have that patch. I can?t commit to doing the work to get everything
 > running, though.

It can also be done via url.el, and that would be usable by 21.4.  I
also have curl and neon ELLs which I think I've posted (or at least
posted about), but they've attracted no interest and I haven't had
time to put them in a form I'm happy to commit.  Those would also be
usable in 21.4, most likely.