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 unless the URL's domain name is included in the variable `no_proxy'. > 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. -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Linux | "Then how could astronauts walk around branden@ecn.purdue.edu | on the Moon?" roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | "Because they were wearing heavy boots."
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