Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 12:50:29AM -0300, Nicolas Lichtmaier wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > > > 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. Programs that have the ability to > > do it should also respect the ftp_proxy variable, but not all ftp clients > > are forced to fo that, since it needs handling of the HTTP protocol. > > Are these environment variables, settings in /etc/proxies or what? > Interestingly, I was thinking about the same thing last week, but you > beat me to it....
We should have an /etc/proxies or or something like that that all web clients are required to honour unless http_proxy or no_proxy is set. It could be simple, even be parsed by a common wrapper so the web client packagers could just call that common wrapper to set http_proxy and no_proxy and then call the regular client. -- greg
