Bug#54524: http_proxy and web clients.
> > 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....
Just environment variables.
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