Comment 7 for bug 137418

Hi, this bug prevents me from using ubuntu/debian from my workplace where my employer uses a NTLM proxy authentication to reach the internet, I had the same problem with fedora and its yum package manager, in fedora they use curl to download http requests so adding NTLM support was just a one-liner patch, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769254#c3

whereas in debian/ubuntu apt-get uses a custom c++ implementation of http protocol[1] so adding NTLM proxy authentication support is a non trivial issue, on the other hand apt uses libcurl for https requests[2] so I will send the one-liner patch to support it.

The solution for this bug would be:

- Port http download code to libcurl, same way https code is already using it.
- As a workaround till prior step is done the ntlmaps package[3] should be included by default in debian/ubuntu so any user behind a NTLM authenticated proxy can *use* apt-get to install/update any package.

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/debian-sid/annotate/head:/methods/http.cc

[2] http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/apt/debian-sid/annotate/head:/methods/https.cc

[3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/web/ntlmaps

Thanks,