+# Figure out what the proxy server should be, either from environment
+# variables or by parsing the output of the (MacOS) program "scutil",
+# which tells us what the system-wide proxy settings are.
+#
+sub set_proxy() {
+
+ if (! $http_proxy) {
+ # historical suckage: the environment variable name is lower case.
+ $http_proxy = $ENV{http_proxy} || $ENV{HTTP_PROXY};
+ }
+
+ if (defined ($http_proxy)) {
+ if ($http_proxy && $http_proxy =~ m@^http://([^/]*)/?$@ ) {
+ # historical suckage: allow "http://host:port" as well as "host:port".
+ $http_proxy = $1;
+ }
+
+ } else {
+ my $proxy_data = `scutil --proxy 2>/dev/null`;
+ my ($server) = ($proxy_data =~ m/\bHTTPProxy\s*:\s*([^\s]+)/s);
+ my ($port) = ($proxy_data =~ m/\bHTTPPort\s*:\s*([^\s]+)/s);
+ # Note: this ignores the "ExceptionsList".
+ if ($server) {
+ $http_proxy = $server;
+ $http_proxy .= ":$port" if $port;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if ($http_proxy) {
+ LOG ($verbose_net, "proxy server: $http_proxy");
+ }
+}
+
+