$ENV{'CURL_MEMDEBUG'} = 1;
$ENV{'HOME'}=$pwd;
+##########################################################################
+# Clear all possible '*_proxy' environment variables for various protocols
+# to prevent them to interfere with our testing!
+
+my $protocol;
+foreach $protocol (('ftp', 'http', 'ftps', 'https', 'gopher', 'no')) {
+ my $proxy = "${protocol}_proxy";
+ # clear lowercase version
+ $ENV{$proxy}=undef;
+ # clear uppercase version
+ $ENV{uc($proxy)}=undef;
+}
+
#######################################################################
# Return the pid of the server as found in the given pid file
#