CloCkWeRX/pear-svn-git — comment on commit 5c9857ae2985877657f60ded1cf9147df526e0e5
File: 2-to-github.sh line 77
By CloCkWeRX:

http_proxy is the environment variable. If it's set by the user's .bashrc or export http_proxy=.... then it will be picked up. I was surprised that the version of curl I had did not use the proxy settings by default.

Google shows me that a few people have a similar problem.
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2001-12/0033.html
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-01/0120.html

The manual (http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/documentation/curl/) claims it respects it by default:
```
Curl reads and understands the following environment variables:

http_proxy, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, GOPHER_PROXY
```

... but the version I was testing with did not appear to.