On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 14:26 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 02:45 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > >> the issue seems to be invariant of the watch file used. It still occurs. > > [...] > >> $ set | grep -i proxy > >> X509_USER_PROXY=/home/moeller/myproxy > > > > Aha! This seems to be due to a change made upstream in libwww-perl in > > version 5.821: > > > > croak on bad proxy args [RT#39919] > > > > This is easily confirmable by checking whether the following also fails > > for you: > > > > #! /usr/bin/perl > > use LWP::UserAgent; > > my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(env_proxy => 1); > > > > env_proxy is documented as reading environment variables of the form > > *_proxy. [...] > Somehow it seems strange to reserve all _PROXY variably for oneself.
This has been fixed on the libwww-perl side by only checking the syntax of those variables matching expected protocols so, unless there are any objections, I'll close this bug. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
