New submission from Kirikaza :
In practice urllib reads HTTP_PROXY firstly and then if HTTP_PROXY is empty urllib reads http_proxy. Documentation (http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html) says nothing about HTTP_PROXY.
Maybe it affects all the versions of Python.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 114319
nosy: docs@python, kirikaza
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: docs do not say that urllib uses HTTP_PROXY
versions: Python 2.6
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Python tracker
http://bugs.python.org/issue9637
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