On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > This can by accomplished by setting the environment variable > > http_proxy, > > e.g. > > export http_proxy="http://myproxy:8080"; > > > > This useful behaviour is not documented in the manpage. > > Even though I deliberately inherited it from urllib2. 8-)
Yes, that is just why it should be documented :-). > Is there a definite reference for the syntax of http_proxy? IIRC, > some programs only handle the "myproxy:8080" syntax, while others > (like urllib2) can deal with both forms. I'm not aware of any definite reference. I think http_proxy is a kind of defacto standard (like so many in computing), without an authoritative formal definition. I just did a quick googling for http_proxy, and most of the software described seems to accept the syntax "http://proxy:8000/"; syntax. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
