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Bad parsing of http_proxy environment variable

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2334 · opened 2013-04-23 by yoannd · updated 2013-04-25 · 3 comments · github
Yyoannd 2013-04-23 github

Steam does not seam to parse proxy-related environment variables correctly.
My system settings are :
all_proxy=http://myproxyhostname.fr:8080
http_proxy=http://myproxyhostname.fr:8080
https_proxy=http://myproxyhostname.fr:8080

Using Wireshark I noticed that Steam tried to resolve hostname "//myproxyhostname.fr" instead of "myproxyhostname.fr", which led DNS servers to return no result.

A possible workaround to this is to set :
all_proxy=myproxyhostname.fr:8080
http_proxy=myproxyhostname.fr:8080
https_proxy=myproxyhostname.fr:8080

which works, but is a non-standard way on defining proxy environment variables on Linux.

MMrSchism 2013-04-23 github

This was touched on with issues #1912 and #1943.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-04-23 github

The next beta client will improve this.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-04-24 github

Today's beta client update should help here, are you still seeing problems?

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