Re: [htdig-dev] Proxy HTTP proposal of change due to possible bug

[Gabriele B. <g.b...@co...>]

Il ven, 2004-01-30 alle 17:59, Gilles Detillieux ha scritto:
> It certainly seems like a bug to me, and your patch seems correct as far
> as I can tell.  However, I don't see the need for supporting a dash or
> "noproxy".  With your patch, if you set http_proxy to an empty string
> within the URL block, it should do the right thing.  What was missing
> before was the code you added to delete the old "proxy" value and set
> the pointer to null when proxyURL's length is 0.

I instinctively thought like you did, Gilles. I set it to empty but it
was not working. I checked the code and it seems that, if an attribute
is empty in the configuration file, it is not overridden. I will inspect
the code however.

>    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.

Ciao,
-Gabriele