Comment 6 for bug 186920

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 14:59 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> We are using the standard system calls for resolving host names. So we
> would need something like this to work:
>
> python -c "import socket; socket.gethostbyname('www.google.com')"
>
> I would assume that this would be some sort of machine configuration,
> not something that we would handle specially in our program.

The thing is, with http proxies you do not need local DNS to work. So we
shouldn't try to resolve names when using an http proxy.

-Rob

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