Public bug reported:
Traditionally (AFAIK for at least the last decade), tools that support
the no_proxy environment variable support specifying an entire subdomain
by prefixing it with a "dot". For example, to exclude any website under
example.com from using the proxy, you would set no_proxy to .example.com
(export no_proxy=.example.com).
A regression in wget 1.19 changed this behavior to expect non-prefixed
domains (example.com vs .example.com). This regression was ultimately
fixed and released with the 1.20 release of wget. bionic includes the
regressed behavior version of wget.
The regression was apparently introduced in wget 1.19.3. This bug should
not effect other Ubuntu releases (xenial contains 1.17.1 and both disco
and eoan contain 1.20.x versions that have the upstream fix).
For more details, see references below and my additional comments on the
RHEL8 bug filed for this issue (RH bug 1763702 linked below).
What happens:
no_proxy=.example.com in bionic sends requests to the proxy server for URLs
like http://www.example.com/ despite requesting proxy exception via no_proxy.
What should happen:
Request should bypass the proxy and go directly to the web server. (works in
xenial, disco and eoan as expected).
System/software information:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release:18.04
$ apt-cache policy wget
wget:
Installed: 1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2
Candidate: 1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2
Version table:
*** 1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2 500
500 http://div6mirrors.llan.ll.mit.edu:80/ubuntu bionic-updates/main
amd64 Packages
500 http://div6mirrors.llan.ll.mit.edu:80/ubuntu bionic-security/main
amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.19.4-1ubuntu2 500
500 http://div6mirrors.llan.ll.mit.edu:80/ubuntu bionic/main amd64
Packages
References:
* Upstream wget bug report:
GNU Wget - Bugs: bug #53622 wget no_proxy leading dot on (sub)domains not
working contradicting man page
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53622
* Upstream commit reference that introduces the regression
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=fd85ac9cc623847e9d94d9f9241ab34e2c146cbf
* Upstream commit reference that introduces the fix
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/wget.git/commit/?id=fd85ac9cc623847e9d94d9f9241ab34e2c146cbf
* Expected behavior of no_proxy as documented in the GNU Emacs manual:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/url/Proxies.html
* Red Hat Bugzilla entry for this issue (Reported against RHEL8.1)
Bug 1763702 - wget is ignoring no_proxy environment variable
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1763702
* Red Hat Bugzilla entry tracking the (now released) errata package for RHEL8.1
Bug 1772821 - wget is ignoring no_proxy environment variable [rhel-8.1.0.z]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1772821
** Affects: wget (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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