Bug#849812: ITP: requests-ntlm -- HTTP NTLM authentication using the requests library

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:20:40PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
> 
> * Package name    : requests-ntlm
>   Version         : 1.0.0
>   Upstream Author : Ben Toews <https://github.com/mastahyeti> et al
> * URL             : https://github.com/requests/requests-ntlm
> * License         : ISC
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : HTTP NTLM authentication using the requests library
> 
> HttpNtlmAuth can be used in conjunction with a Session in order to make
> use of connection pooling. Since NTLM authenticates connections, this
> is more efficient. Otherwise, each request will go through a new NTLM
> challenge-response.
> 
> This is a new dependency of pywinrm, and will be maintained as part of
> the Python Modules Team.

After a bit of delay I worked on this, to discover that its depedency
ntlm-auth had no copyright statement. I am awaiting clarification
from upstream on that:

<https://github.com/jborean93/ntlm-auth/issues/16>.