On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Augusto Arcoverde da Rocha wrote: [...]
Yes, it's supported but isn't a standart and has no guaranties to exists on all architectures as Alexander said in a reply in this list
$http_proxy and $ftp_proxy may not be very well documented but they are defacto standards and as such it would be good to support them in Wine.
IMHO, the current password exposition is a ugly thing: $ export http_proxy=http://user:__%3E%3E**password**<<__@host.dom:8080
I think would be preferable hide the password typing and don't storing it in a file like system register, maintaining it in the memory only. Perhaps getting the password altrougt some interactive process which hide the password.
Storing the password in an environment variable is ok as there's no way for other users to access it. Besides, changing that would require changing the $http_proxy standard so which is a completely separate issue.
I think the important issue at hand is that currently Wine completely ignores the user's proxy settings stored in $http_proxy.