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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2016-04-25 16:17:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2016-04-25 16:17:54 (GMT) |
| commit | b31c87bfcfc8b904ef05d998b4c38122b8651763 (patch) | |
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backport fix for Issue #26804.
urllib.request will prefer lower_case proxy environment variables over
UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst index 91deb39..4c34b90 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst @@ -292,6 +292,8 @@ Utility functions in case insensitive way, for all operating systems first, and when it cannot find it, looks for proxy information from Mac OSX System Configuration for Mac OS X and Windows Systems Registry for Windows. + If both lowercase and uppercase environment variables exist (and disagree), + lowercase is preferred. .. note:: urllib also exposes certain utility functions like splittype, splithost and |