kramdown-rfc fails to recognize web proxy

[mouse07410]

See martinthomson/i-d-template#472

Toolchain pulls reference.RFC.*.xml files from Internet. On my system it requires using Web proxy , defined in env vars HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and such.

Somehow, those settings are ignored:

.  .  .
/Users/ur20980/.cache/xml2rfc/reference.RFC.4306.xml: renewing (stale by 10.6 days) from https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.4306.xml
/Users/ur20980/.cache/xml2rfc/reference.RFC.2459.xml: renewing (stale by 10.6 days) from https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2459.xml
/Users/ur20980/.cache/xml2rfc/reference.RFC.2119.xml: renewing (stale by 10.6 days) from https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2119.xml
/Users/ur20980/.cache/xml2rfc/reference.RFC.8174.xml: renewing (stale by 10.6 days) from https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8174.xml
/Users/ur20980/.cache/xml2rfc/reference.RFC.5247.xml: renewing (stale by 10.6 days) from https://bib.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.5247.xml
make: *** [draft-uri-lamps-pquake.xml] Error 127
make: *** Deleting file `draft-uri-lamps-pquake.xml'

Of course, one workaround that I use is manually downloading those RFCs and placing them in the expected dir. But it would be much less irritating if the toolchain could manage this task by itself.

[cabo]

Hi,

I'm not seeing in the above any error messages related to the fetches; the messages look like a normal trace of fetching the I-Ds.
I would expect messages like "*** Can't get with persistent HTTP: Failed to open TCP connection" if you can't use HTTP directly.
(It doesn't help that I don't know whether you are using KRAMDOWN_PERSISTENT -- I-D-template normally does.)
Anyway, all looks normal so far, and I don't know where the error 127 then comes in.

In any case, I have found a way to explicitly feed the environment variables to net/http/persistent, and I will release a new revision presently.

[cabo]

In any case, I have found a way to explicitly feed the environment variables to net/http/persistent, and I will release a new revision presently.

Now in 1.7.26