Bug#54524: http_proxy and web clients.
On Jan 09, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
>
> This is already standard, but I think it should be into policy because I
> already saw some programs deviating from this expected behaviour.
Time for some wishlist bugs, then, I guess...
> Web clients should default to try to fetch URLs by a direct connection to
> the target host. If the `http_proxy' variable is defined, it should specify
> an URL that would be used as a proxy. Programs should not try to access an
> URL directly if this variable is defined. Programs that have the ability to
> do it should also respect the ftp_proxy variable, but not all ftp clients
> are forced to do that, since it needs handling of the HTTP protocol.
Seconded.
Chris
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