PuTTY wish http-proxy-env

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summary: Honour the http_proxy et al environment variables
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: fun: Just needs tuits, and not many of them.
priority: dormant: This is an old feature request that we no longer think is relevant.

It might be nice if at least the command-line tools (plink et al) could honour the commonly used environment variables http_proxy, ftp_proxy, no_proxy (etc?), using them to automatically configure use of PuTTY's HTTP proxy features.

Of course, there would have to be some obvious and easy way to override this, because in many circumstances it wouldn't be The Right Thing to do.

I'm not sure whether there are written standards for the names and contents of these variables anywhere or whether they're just defined by common practice. Ben suggests that NCSA Mosaic might be a good place to look.

SGT, 2024-11-17: classifying this wish as dormant. The mention of NCSA Mosaic dates this to the 1990s, and we don't seem to have had a stream of requests for it since.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-11-17 14:53:03 +0000)