On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 08:17:50PM +0300, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
> Earlier, the whole http.proxy option string was passed to curl without
> any preprocessing so curl could complain about the invalid proxy
> configuration.
>
> After the commit 372370f167 ("http: use credential API to handle proxy
> authentication", 2016-01-26), if the user specified an invalid HTTP
> proxy option in the configuration, then the option parsing is silently
> fails and NULL will be passed to curl as a proxy. This forces curl to
s/is silently/silently/
> fall back to detecting the proxy configuration from the environment,
> causing the http.proxy option ignoring.
>
> Fix this issue by checking the proxy option parsing result. If parsing
> failed then print error message and die. Such behaviour allows user to
> quickly figure the proxy misconfiguration and correct it.
Two minor grammos:
s/error/an error/;
s/user/the user/;
In the earlier discussion you mentioned a warning, but I like this die()
much better.
Both patches look very clean, and nicely explained. Thanks for working
on this.
-Peff