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Re:Stop Breaking TLS by sureglymop on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @04:44AM (#46215876)
I have this similar gripe when it comes to http proxy configuration. It's invisible to you until you are in an execution environment where you are mandated to use the providers proxy configuration.

Some software reads "expected" env variables for it, some has its own config or cli flags, most just doesn't even bother/care about supporting it.

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Re:Stop Breaking TLS by amiga386 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:05AM (#46216018)
Chiefly because "supporting it" requires a full JavaScript interpreter, and subscribing to changes in "system settings" during the lifetime of your program. Easier just to support http_proxy/https_proxy/no_proxy (and what standard for no_proxy? Does it support CIDR ranges?) or even less flexibility than that.
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Re:Stop Breaking TLS by sureglymop on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @07:35PM (#46226135)
If only http_proxy/https_proxy/no_proxy at startup time were more widely supported then. In my case I had to deploy software into a kubernetes cluster managed by a different company that required these configurations.
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