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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-05-30 22:43:34 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-05-30 22:43:34 +0200
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docs: clarify NO_PROXY further
Fixes #1208
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@@ -866,8 +866,11 @@ ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
If the host name matches one of these strings, or the host is within the
domain of one of these strings, transactions with that node will not be
- proxied.
-
+ proxied. When a domain is used, it needs to start with a period. A user can
+ specify that both www.example.com and foo.example.com should not uses a
+ proxy by setting NO_PROXY to ".example.com". By including the full name you
+ can exclude specific host names, so to make www.example.com not use a proxy
+ but still have foo.example.com do it, set NO_PROXY to "www.example.com"
The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables.