From 97840535c6c439a9d0993b80d87b38bee3d66647 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:47:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix for situations where proxy is set in environment, but the
 user tries to test something on localhost

---
 lib/core/option.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/core/option.py b/lib/core/option.py
index 597107534..2e658bf64 100644
--- a/lib/core/option.py
+++ b/lib/core/option.py
@@ -592,6 +592,8 @@ def __setHTTPProxy():
     global proxyHandler
 
     if not conf.proxy:
+        if conf.hostname in ('localhost', '127.0.0.1'):
+            proxyHandler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({})
         return
 
     debugMsg = "setting the HTTP proxy to pass by all HTTP requests"