Way back when I started to support SETI, there was one-and-only-one server. (I'm an old bit of flatulence.)

When BOINC was developed, the code in URL.CPP was written to extract the URL, the string between the "//" and the next "/", as it should.

The cc_config.xml supports proxy definitions, including the ability to exclude certain "host domains" from using a proxy. It works good with
a single server.

The rub is that many projects now have many servers that may be used, and the "no_proxy" list currently is an exact match of the URL. And
supporting many projects that can't or don't use a proxy is a headache as well.

I wish the HTTP_CURL.CPP module compared only the -last (length of extracted argument from no_host) characters- of the URL. Then a generic
"don't use a proxy for *.name.HLD" would work for multiple servers, and automatically exclude any additional servers as well.

Forwarded to development as Client: generalize proxy management in cc_config.xml (GitHub issue # 3182)