[ruby-core:93349] [Ruby trunk Bug#12724] Net::HTTP#post_form and #get_response do not use ENV proxy as default

Issue #12724 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans).

Status changed from Open to Closed

Fixed by commit:67723c1e4673253b2f4a2c7204ccab9d0daaaeb9.

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Bug #12724: Net::HTTP#post_form and #get_response do not use ENV proxy as default
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12724#change-78860

* Author: aert (Aert van de Hulsbeek)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: 2.3.1
* Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN
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`Net::HTTP#post_form` and `#get_response` use `HTTP.start`, without passing any proxy args to it. As a result, the ENV proxy is not used for these calls. 

I believe both calls should have the same default behaviour as the more verbose
```
   req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
   http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
   req.set_form_data(params)
   response = http.request(req)
```
which does use the ENV proxy setting.

If this is not desirable, it would be good if this alternate default behaviour can be included in the `#post_form` and `#get_response` documentation.





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