> > 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'.
Is that standard? Do programs know that? =) And... do you second the proposal? =)
