On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:54:25PM +0900, Minero Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   In mail "Re: OO Design question for Net::HTTP caching extension"
>     Richard Zidlicky <rz / linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 
> > actually I found it quite irritating that proxy isn´t intergated
> > more transparently into Net::HTTP (not to mention complete lack of
> > support for ftp proxy)
> > Every Perl or Python tool will use http_proxy and no_proxy environment
> > variables by default and I see no reason Ruby tools should do 
> > differently.
> 
> OK, I'll implement it in 1.8.

same old request.. could Net::HTTP use proxy by default? 

Far too many Ruby programs and libraries do not provide support for http
proxies and of those that do only a minimal fraction does get it right,
ie not only use http_proxy but also no_proxy.

Regards
Richard