Re: [htdig-dev] environment variable overrides of attrs (was: Proxy HTTP proposal of change due to possible bug)

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Gabriele Bartolini:
> >    Later, this should be able to be overridden by the http_proxy
> >    environement variable, but it currently cannot.
> 
> > or any reason for the expectation that it should be able to be overridden,
> > so why even mention this at all?  Can anyone explain this one?
> 
> I agree ... I think we should get rid of this. What about you guys?
> Otherwise I can think of other environmental variables to be used, such
> as LOCALE for instance. But, I agree with Gilles, either we give this
> chance in a very general way (for all its possible uses) or we don't
> give it at all.

Good point.  The locale attribute is likely the one where someone would
expect the enviroment variable to set the default, if not override the
config.  Maybe whoever added this sentence meant for it to go in the
description for locale, but aimed poorly?  ;-)

It does come up from time to time on the mailing list that some users
expect htdig to observe the LOCALE env variable, which it doesn't.  So,
we may want to consider changing the code so it does use this variable,
or adding a note in the docs saying it doesn't.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)