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2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9f1bbdef3..33b31d01b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
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@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
Changelog
+Daniel Stenberg (24 Apr 2009)
+- bug report #2779245 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2779245) by Rainer
+ Koenig pointed out that the man page didn't tell that the *_proxy
+ environment variables can be specified lower case or UPPER CASE and the
+ lower case takes precedence,
+
Daniel Fandrich (21 Apr 2009)
- Added new libcurl source files to Amiga, RiscOS and VC6 build files.
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index c0a76d9d0..9748d5bec 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -1482,8 +1482,10 @@ default statistics.
.I ~/.curlrc
.RS
Default config file, see \fI-K/--config\fP for details.
-
.SH ENVIRONMENT
+The environment variables can be specified in lower case or upper case. The
+lower case version has precedence. http_proxy is an exception as it is only
+available in lower case.
.IP "http_proxy [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
Sets the proxy server to use for HTTP.
.IP "HTTPS_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"