Hi guys, It is standard for Linux to configure HTTP proxies using the http_proxy environment variable, as I had to discover painfully at work. Graphical tools (like Gnome's proxy settings) will even set it automatically.
The -proxy option in chicken-install is handy. However, by recognizing the env variable, chicken-install is able to use the system proxy automatically. So, attached is a proposed patch. Some possible improvements: * Add support for proxy authentication. The proxy at work actually requires this, but I have setup a local proxy to forward the requests, so that apps that don't support it will work. Or, at least, it should complain if a username/password combination is detected (like http://user:passw...@host:port";). Comments? -- Stephen Sent from my Emacs
0001-Added-code-to-recognize-the-http_proxy-environment-v.patch
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