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I can offer one data point.

The company I'm an on-site (well, usually) contractor for, whose network I use at work, proxies web traffic over HTTP. It's encrypted at the proxy for HTTPS, but everything outbound from the internal network is effectively plain text.

Emacs doesn't allow packages to be installed over HTTP, so in order to use the package repositories, I have to use my phone as a hotspot.

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If you have sufficient disk space (~5GB), you can also keep an elpa-mirror on your machine.

https://github.com/d12frosted/elpa-mirror

Didn’t know about this possibility. It’s a good idea to archive it locally and update regularly (just in case something happens with internet ;). Is the same possible for melpa?

> Emacs doesn't allow packages to be installed over HTTP

Are you sure about that? I think that you can specify http as usual in the URL:

  (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)

See the instructions here which go to an annoyingly extreme level of ugliness to set the protocol in a paranoid fashion: https://melpa.org/#/getting-started

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