environment variable for host in [http_proxy] section not working?

[Johnny P]

I did not try, but wonder if you have to do something like
[http_proxy]
host = "`echo $MY_PROXY`"


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Will Fiveash <will.fiveash at gmail.com>wrote:

> I did the following:
>
> 1. $ export  MY_PROXY=http://foo.com:80/
>
> 2. edit ~/.hgrc:
> [http_proxy]
> host = $MY_PROXY
>
> 3. $ hg incoming
> abort: error: node name or service name not known
>
> If I set host like so in .hgrc:
>
> [http_proxy]
> host = http://foo.com:80/
>
> then hg incoming works.  I'm running Mercurial Distributed SCM (version
> 2.2.1) on Solaris 11u1.  Is this a bug?
>
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