Re: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?]

[David Engster]

> stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>  More importantly: what do you want to do about `request`?
>>
>> About this, I really suggest ELPA can include it. Because I hate to
>> write more complex url requests with `url.el`.  If someone want to
>> adopt kiwix.el request to use `url.el`. I also can't accept
>> it. Because I still need to write code on it.  Also as you said, a
>> wrapper on `url.el` is good for developer. Emacs will need it. Really
>> helpful.
>
> Emacs definitely needs an alternative to url.el.

See

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-12/msg01070.html

Lars has pushed this work as scratch/with-url and
scratch/with-fetched-url, but AFAICS it wasn't merged (yet?).

-David