Merge branch 'sr/http-proxy-configuration-fix'
"http.proxy" set to an empty string is used to disable the usage of
proxy. We broke this early last year.
* sr/http-proxy-configuration-fix:
http: fix the silent ignoring of proxy misconfiguraion
http: honor empty http.proxy option to bypass proxy
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 8d94e2c..7a168ed 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -836,8 +836,14 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
}
}
- if (curl_http_proxy) {
- curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY, curl_http_proxy);
+ if (curl_http_proxy && curl_http_proxy[0] == '\0') {
+ /*
+ * Handle case with the empty http.proxy value here to keep
+ * common code clean.
+ * NB: empty option disables proxying at all.
+ */
+ curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY, "");
+ } else if (curl_http_proxy) {
#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x071800
if (starts_with(curl_http_proxy, "socks5h"))
curl_easy_setopt(result,
@@ -861,6 +867,9 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
strbuf_release(&url);
}
+ if (!proxy_auth.host)
+ die("Invalid proxy URL '%s'", curl_http_proxy);
+
curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_PROXY, proxy_auth.host);
#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x071304
var_override(&curl_no_proxy, getenv("NO_PROXY"));
