RFR: 7132699 [macosx] Proxy using for connection to localhost

[Alan Bateman]

On 30/01/2012 10:00, Michael McMahon wrote:
> Can I get the following webrev reviewed please?
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~michaelm/7132699/webrev.1/
>
> On Mac, we read the system proxy settings and
> by default the system sets a proxy bypass list. Unfortunately, this
> default list doesn't contain some entries (like localhost) which we 
> depend
> on to be bypassed. So, the fix is to include our own default list 
> together with
> any additional ones provided by the system.
I think looks okay and should be safe to use on all platforms (meaning 
the startsWith("Mac OS") check can be removed).

It would be good to get this fix quickly too as that will resolve test 
failures all over the map that stem from http connections to localhost.

-Alan.