tags 790523 + wontfix thanks Hello,
upstream will not fix this: Am Freitag, den 14.08.2015, 08:58 +0000 schrieb Tim Ruehsen: > Update of bug #45443 (project wget): > > Status: None => Wont Fix > > Assigned to: None => rockdaboot > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Follow-up Comment #1: > > I cite Daniel Stenberg (curl maintainer/developer) from the mailing > list > bug-w...@gnu.org, Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:20:28 +0200 (CEST): > > "The reason some tools don't accept "HTTP_PROXY" and only > "http_proxy" is that > the CGI interface from back in the old days provide headers from the > incoming > request to the CGI program prefixed with "HTTP_". > > Thus, running a CGI script from a server, an incoming "Proxy:" header > (which > normally doesn't do anything) would be sent to the program as > "HTTP_PROXY", > leading to confusions or in the worst case some sort of attack. > > The CGI interface is an ancient thing, probably boardering to > extinction. > Still it is out there and some such CGIs probably use wget. > > Incidently, curl also only accepts the lower case version of this > environment > variable and I believe it goes for some other related tools as well." > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Reply to this item at: > > <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45443> -- Noël Köthe <noel@ ebian.org> Debian GNU/Linux, www.debian.org
