From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:29:08 +0000 (+0800) Subject: Issue9637 - Explain in getproxies_environment that _proxy environ variable... X-Git-Tag: v3.2.3rc1~199 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=19d85c2762feae1765de6e2e509b5744a0d60293;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue9637 - Explain in getproxies_environment that _proxy environ variable case does not matter. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 6b2b013a61a9..cc759a4465ec 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: .. function:: getproxies() This helper function returns a dictionary of scheme to proxy server URL - mappings. It scans the environment for variables named ``_proxy`` - 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. + mappings. It scans the environment for variables named ``_proxy``, + in a case insensitive approach, 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. The following classes are provided: