highgroove/scout-client — comment on commit 6ef004869982ef22ac24d9200510bbe03355b388
File: lib/scout/server.rb line 575
By chuckd:

Also see this note from the Net::HTTP docs:

> Net::HTTP::Proxy returns a Net::HTTP instance when proxy_addr is nil so there is no need for conditional code.

(http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html)