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....
>
> We should have an /etc/proxies or or something like that that all web clients
> are required to honour unless http_proxy or no_proxy is set. It could be
> simple, even be parsed by a common wrapper so the web client packagers could
> just call that common wrapper to set http_proxy and no_proxy and then call the
> regular client.
You have a cost in being non-standard, and I don't think it is worth it
this time.
What benefits would give us what you propose?
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