From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-07-18T08:24:04+09:00
Subject: Re: OO Design question for Net::HTTP caching extension

> actually I found it quite irritating that proxy isn卒t intergated
> more transparently into Net::HTTP (not to mention complete lack of
> support for ftp proxy)
> Every Perl or Python tool will use http_proxy and no_proxy environment
> variables by default and I see no reason Ruby tools should do 
> differently.

Well, for one, there are environments where environment variables are
not settable -- for example, within mod_ruby -- you may want several
sets of settings, but they all run with a shared process pool.

The lack of transparency is annoying to me too -- I'd expect a
"use_proxy" method to Net::HTTP itself, more than a different
constructor.  That said, code-wise, Net::HTTP is a very clean animal.

Ari