Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] http: fix the silent ignoring of proxy misconfiguraion

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On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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/;
>

Thank you. Just sent a series with suggested grammar fixes as v4.

> In the earlier discussion you mentioned a warning, but I like this die()
> much better.
>

I actually meant "die" but by some reason I typed "warning" :-/

> Both patches look very clean, and nicely explained. Thanks for working
> on this.
>

Peff, I would like to thank you and Ævar for your great help!

-- 
Sergey




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