net/http: ProxyFromEnvironment doesn't support "https_proxy" environmental variables

[gopherbot]

by mitchell.hashimoto:

The "ProxyFromEnvironment" function is great, but doesn't properly support the
"HTTPS_PROXY" variable which is also standard across many Unix tools that
perform HTTP requests. 

The best documentation I could find was this reference for GNU wget:

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Proxies.html

[robpike]

Comment 1:

Labels changed: added priority-later, removed priority-triage.

Status changed to Accepted.

[rsc]

Comment 2:

I think this will need to wait until Go 1.3.
I can't tell what HTTPS_PROXY is for.
Is it supposed to be used for all URLs, and you just connect via HTTPS?
Or is it supposed to be used only for https URLs, and if so do you connect to the proxy
via HTTP or HTTPS?

Labels changed: added go1.3maybe, removed go1.2maybe.

[rsc]

Comment 3:

Labels changed: added release-none, removed go1.3maybe.

[rsc]

Comment 4:

Labels changed: added repo-main.

[gopherbot]

Comment 5 by dan@walshclan.org:

Did this make it into golang 1.3?  We have a bugzilla on docker for this.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106334

[ianlancetaylor]

Comment 6:

There is no current support for HTTPS_PROXY.  There is a chance we can get it into 1.4
if it simple.  It would help if somebody could answer Russ's questions in comment #2.

Labels changed: added release-go1.4, removed priority-later, release-none.

[gopherbot]

Comment 7:

CL https://golang.org/cl/148980043 mentions this issue.

[bradfitz]

Comment 8:

This issue was closed by revision e6f21be.

Status changed to Fixed.