Bug#54524: http_proxy and web clients.
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 12:50:29AM -0300, 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.
>
> 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 fo that, since it needs handling of the HTTP protocol.
Are these environment variables, settings in /etc/proxies or what?
Interestingly, I was thinking about the same thing last week, but you
beat me to it....
Julian
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