> From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] on
> behalf of Daniel Stenberg [daniel_at_haxx.se]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:23 PM
> To: libcurl development
> Subject: RE: introduced an auth callback
>
> As I've understood the problem, an application doesn't necesarily know which
> proxy it uses before-hand! If you allow the user to specify it somehow in an
> argument or config file the program have to make a rather complicated parsing
> to extract the info, but if the proxy information is passed in as an
> environment variable the application doesn't necessarily know about it at all
> until libcurl detects it. Or it needs to re-implement libcurls environment
> variable logic to catch the correct proxy to figure it out. Complicated
> alternatives that would be much easier solved if libcurl told the app about
> what it figured out.

Ah, I didn't realize libcurl has its own environment logic. I assumed the embedding app would need to check environment variables and set the proxy though setopt.

Joe
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