Re: http_proxy

On 5 Oct 2011, at 15:05, Boyd Duffee wrote:

> Nigel Horne wrote:
>> On 5 Oct 2011, at 14:50, Boyd Duffee wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> I'm writing a module SRU::Client and like a good boy, I wrote a test script (using Test::More).  I couldn't figure out why the test script would run on one machine, but not on another, until I found that the machine it wouldn't run on had the HTTP_PROXY set.  When I unset that variable in the shell, the script works, but I cannot for the life of me unset HTTP_PROXY in the script itself.
>>> 
>>> Things that don't work:
>>> undef $ENV{HTTP_PROXY}
>> Try:
>> delete $ENV{HTTP_PROXY};
> 
> I did.  No joy.

My typo.  I think http_proxy needs to be in *lower* case in this instance.  Add that to your strange-but-true list.

-Nigel