- bug report #2779245 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2779245) by Rainer

  Koenig pointed out that the man page didn't tell that the *_proxy
  environment variables can be specified lower case or UPPER CASE and the
  lower case takes precedence,

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9f1bbdef31cd7603e18f7dcfa9103d372a0ea75a..33b31d01b8afba5b201671ef351de7b1259d65c2 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (24 Apr 2009)
+- bug report #2779245 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2779245) by Rainer
+  Koenig pointed out that the man page didn't tell that the *_proxy
+  environment variables can be specified lower case or UPPER CASE and the
+  lower case takes precedence,
+
 Daniel Fandrich (21 Apr 2009)
 - Added new libcurl source files to Amiga, RiscOS and VC6 build files.
 

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index c0a76d9d0d99ec2168bc470b6109737ef5dcce11..9748d5bec9b3001d2eb609c8b38cd198e999f0fd 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -1482,8 +1482,10 @@ default statistics.
 .I ~/.curlrc
 .RS
 Default config file, see \fI-K/--config\fP for details.
-
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
+The environment variables can be specified in lower case or upper case. The
+lower case version has precedence. http_proxy is an exception as it is only
+available in lower case.
 .IP "http_proxy [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
 Sets the proxy server to use for HTTP.
 .IP "HTTPS_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"