Bug #12724: Net::HTTP#post_form and #get_response do not use ENV proxy as default

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.3.1
• Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN

[aert (Aert van de Hulsbeek)]

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.

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Fixed by 67723c1e4673253b2f4a2c7204ccab9d0daaaeb9.