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From: "Mike Pelley" <mike@pelley.com>
Subject: Re: bin/25494: fetch uses environment variable FTP_PROXY, ftp/lynx use ftp_proxy
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The following reply was made to PR bin/25494; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mike Pelley" <mike@pelley.com>
To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org>
Cc: <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bin/25494: fetch uses environment variable FTP_PROXY, ftp/lynx use ftp_proxy
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:00:27 -0500

 > Is this really the correct fix? Does lynx really apply the exact same
 > semantics to ftp_proxy / http_proxy as libfetch does do FTP_PROXY /
 > HTTP_PROXY?
 
 ftp is in the base system and it also uses ftp_proxy/http_proxy.  The use of
 these environment variables is very similar between the two (and lynx) as
 far as I can tell - but perhaps I'm missing something?
 
 I think consistency is important - it seems incovenient to have two
 variables that do the same thing.
 
 > (me, I'm tempted to say the correct fix is "don't use lynx, use w3m")
 
 This doesn't quite seem relevant, but ftp should be enough to justify it
 regardless.
 
 Mike.
 

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