http_proxy environment variable

[Mark Howard <mh@debian.org>]

Hi,
  I've recently needed to use a http proxy with java.net methods. To set
this, the options  -Dhttp.proxyHost=wwwcache.bris.ac.uk
-Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 have to be set on the java command. j2se1.4 did
not recognise http_proxy environment variables, even though they are
set. 

I've not yet tried with other JVMs, but if they do the same, should this
be reported as a bug?

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