http-client
===========
An HTTP client engine, intended as a base layer for more user-friendly packages.
This codebase has been refactored from [http-conduit](http://www.stackage.org/package/http-conduit).
Below is a series of cookbook recipes. A number of recipes exist elsewhere,
including `Network.HTTP.Client` and `Network.HTTP.Conduit`. The goal is to
expand this list over time.
## Proxy environment variable
Use the following approach to get proxy settings from the `http_proxy` and
`https_proxy` environment variables.
```haskell
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
import Network.HTTP.Client
main :: IO ()
main = do
let settings = managerSetProxy
(proxyEnvironment Nothing)
defaultManagerSettings
withManager settings $ \man -> do
let req = "http://httpbin.org"
-- Note that the following settings will be completely ignored.
{ proxy = Just $ Proxy "localhost" 1234
}
httpLbs req man >>= print
```