From 082523bcea00a5b4067589f0782c79204ffad93c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Schlichting <fsfs@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:01:08 +0200
Subject: doc/user: document effect of http_proxy envvar on curl plugin

---
 doc/user.xml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/user.xml b/doc/user.xml
index 02d94c0f6..a08a5aec0 100644
--- a/doc/user.xml
+++ b/doc/user.xml
@@ -1532,6 +1532,14 @@ buffer_size: 16384</programlisting>
           Opens remote files or streams over HTTP.
         </para>
 
+        <para>
+          Note that unless overridden by the below settings (e.g. by
+          setting them to a blank value), general curl configuration
+          from environment variables such as
+          <varname>http_proxy</varname> or specified in
+          <filename>~/.curlrc</filename> will be in effect.
+        </para>
+
         <informaltable>
           <tgroup cols="2">
             <thead>
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