httparty doesn't respect http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables

[tamird]

This is due to the underlying implementation of Net::HTTP, but httparty should check for those environment variables in HTTParty::ConnectionAdapter.connection

[jnunemaker]

I know nothing about this type of stuff, so without a pull request + tests, there is not much I can do. Thanks for letting us know though. If you get a chance, I'd love to see some code.

[sodabrew]

You can set these options on each query:
options[:http_proxyaddr], options[:http_proxyport], options[:http_proxyuser], options[:http_proxypass]

Is the request that those options should be automatically set from certain well-known environment variables? If so, which ones, and is that documented practice somewhere?

[tamird]

Apologies for not updating this thread. @sodabrew yes, the request is that these are auto-populated from http_proxy and https_proxy (these are well known and used by curl and wget, among others).

However, I looked at this upstream and this is fixed in Ruby 2.0 in Net::HTTP. My request to have it backported to 1.9 was rejected because it was deemed a new feature.

This issue is good to close.