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From: Nelson Benitez Leon <nelsonjesus.benitez@seap•minhap.es>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain•net>, Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] http: try standard proxy env vars when http.proxy config option is not set
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:57:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4F47EF.40405@seap.minhap.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120229210816.GB628@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 02/29/2012 10:08 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:46:03AM +0100, Nelson Benitez Leon wrote:
> 
>>> Good point. We sometimes follow this order:
>>>
>>>   1. git-specific environment variables (i.e., $GIT_HTTP_PROXY, if
>>>      it existed)
>>>   2. git config files (i.e., http.proxy)
>>>   3. generic system environment (i.e., $http_proxy).
>>>
>>> So thinking about it that way, the original patch makes more sense.
>>
>> So, in PATCH 2/3, apart from expanding the commit message.. do we want
>> to support HTTP_PROXY or only http_proxy ? HTTP_PROXY seems to not be
>> very used by existent programs, but support it it's only a gentenv call..
> 
> If HTTP_PROXY is not in wide use, I don't see a reason to support it.

Ok

> And I take back what I said about environment precedence, based on the
> discussion. Also, I don't think there is a need to strdup the results of
> getenv here, is there? So I think the code you want is just:
> 
>   if (!curl_http_proxy)
>           curl_http_proxy = getenv("http_proxy");

but curl_http_proxy gets freed in http_cleanup as follows:

free((void *)curl_http_proxy);

Is it ok to free strings returned by getenv() ? I thought nope, so I
used strdup which existent code was already using..
> 
> and the justification for the commit message is that we need to know the
> proxy value outside of curl, because the next patch will do some
> extra processing on the value.
> 
> -Peff
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-01  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-28 12:54 [PATCH 2/3] http: try standard proxy env vars when http.proxy config option is not set Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-02-28 12:19 ` Thomas Rast
2012-02-28 14:57   ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-02-28 14:34     ` Thomas Rast
2012-02-28 19:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-02-29 10:38     ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-02-29 18:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 10:18         ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-03-04 19:19     ` Daniel Stenberg
2012-02-28 19:15 ` Jeff King
2012-02-28 19:27   ` Sam Vilain
2012-02-28 19:34     ` Jeff King
2012-02-29  9:55       ` Matthieu Moy
2012-02-29 10:46       ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-02-29 21:08         ` Jeff King
2012-03-01  9:57           ` Nelson Benitez Leon [this message]
2012-03-01  9:10             ` Jeff King
2012-03-11 16:56 ` James Cloos
2012-03-11 19:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-13 10:22     ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-03-14  4:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-14  9:54         ` Nelson Benitez Leon
2012-03-14 20:41           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-15  9:38             ` Nelson Benitez Leon

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