From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nelson Benitez Leon Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] http: try standard proxy env vars when http.proxy config option is not set Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:38:52 +0100 Message-ID: <4F4E003C.1050301@seap.minhap.es> References: <4F4CCE8A.4010800@seap.minhap.es><878vjn8823.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> <7v62eqzrqm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Rast , git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net, sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz, sam@vilain.net To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 29 10:41:29 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2g2G-0008Sv-QN for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:41:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965042Ab2B2JlS (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:41:18 -0500 Received: from luthien2.mpt.es ([82.150.0.102]:35720 "EHLO luthien2.map.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964954Ab2B2JlQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:41:16 -0500 Received: from correo.map.es (unknown [10.1.24.76]) by luthien2.map.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D32AB705C; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:40:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.47.128.147] (unknown [10.1.29.79]) by correo.map.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35282C6F1; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:40:12 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: <7v62eqzrqm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-map-MapScanner: Libre de virus, Libre de virus X-Spam-Status: No, No X-map-MapScanner-Information: X-map-MapScanner-ID: 7D32AB705C.1CBEB X-map-MapScanner-From: nelsonjesus.benitez@seap.minhap.es X-map-MailScanner-Watermark: 1331113220.70363@yDReubmeaIpFGgVor11lSQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 02/28/2012 08:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Thomas Rast writes: > >> Which raises the questions: >> >> * Why is this needed? Does git's use of libcurl ignore http_proxy? [1] >> seems to indicate that libcurl respects _proxy >> automatically. >> >> * Why do you (need to?) support HTTP_PROXY when curl doesn't? > > Let me add a third bullet point. > > I've heard rumors that libcurl on some versions/installations of Mac OS X > deliberately ignores the environment. For those who agree with Apple, it > would be a regression if we suddenly start the environment ourselves and > using it. Hi Junio, what did you mean by "we start the environment and using it"? I didn't understand what you mean there..