Re: [Bug-wget] no_proxy env ip address range support

[Aníbal Limón]

Hi,

On 16/04/15 03:45, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Aníbal Limón wrote:
>
> > I noticed that wget only support domain names entries into no_proxy 
> > env-var, i think will be good to add support for IPs and IP ranges.
>
> Let me just remind everyone that a very common setup for people behind 
> proxies like in large companies, is to not resolve "outer" host names 
> at all or even to resolve them to other (wildcard style) addresses.
Yes it's happen also happen that big companies have hostnames with the 
same domain extarnal/internal for that is useful to have subnets in 
no_proxy instead of domain wildcard.

> Also relevant: by resolving target host names on the host you're 
> leaking info to the local DNS server etc which host names you're 
> actually going to ask the proxy for.

Cheers,
    alimon