On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:00:29 +0100, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http_proxy is a "defacto" standard and as such there's no clear > consensus on whether the trailing slash should be permitted or not. Some > software accepts it, other doesn't. I don't think the '/' is "valid" > since in URI / RFC3986 terms, the proxy is a scheme and an authority but > not a path. > > It would not be too much work for debgtd to ignore the trailing slash if > present. Before I do this, I'm going to do a bit of research into the > origins of the environment variable and see what software chokes on the > trailing slash and what doesn't.
Ahah, indeed! Removing the slash fixes things... The variable declaration has been in my /etc/profile for many years, so I've forgotten where I got it from. I imagine it was from the Squid documentation; the Squid FAQ still uses a slash at the end of the _proxy values - see "Lynx and Mosaic manual configuration" in /usr/share/doc/squid/CompleteFaq.gz in the squid package. Feel free to fix, close or reassign ;-) Regards, Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
