[New-bugs-announce] [issue11398] http_proxy on windows won't function due to incorrect case handling

[chris nojima]

New submission from chris nojima <chrisnojima at gmail.com>:

There is an issue where on windows os.environ keys are all uppercase. If i run set a="hello", in python it will appear as a key "A". urllib.request.getproxies_environment looks for all _proxy environment vars by looking for "_proxy". Since windows uppercases, it's impossible to set this var (it will be HTTP_PROXY and won't match, etc).
This is stopping me from running some install scripts

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 130067
nosy: chris.nojima
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: http_proxy on windows won't function due to incorrect case handling
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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