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Bug#54524: http_proxy and web clients.



> > This is already standard, but I think it should be into policy because I
> > already saw some programs deviating from this expected behaviour.
> > 
> > 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
> 
> unless the URL's domain name is included in the variable `no_proxy'.

 Is that standard?
 Do programs know that? =)

 And... do you second the proposal? =)


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