Nelson Benitez Leon <nelsonjesus.benitez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 02/28/2012 01:19 PM, Thomas Rast wrote:
>>
>> * Why is this needed? Does git's use of libcurl ignore http_proxy? [1]
>> seems to indicate that libcurl respects <protocol>_proxy
>> automatically.
>
> It could not be needed, because, as you noted, curl already reads it, but then we will
> loose the feature on patch [3/3] because if $http_proxy has username but no password
> curl will not ask you for the password.. instead if we read it we could detect that,
> and ask for the password.
Ok. An explanation along these lines should definitely go into the
commit message!
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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