diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index 2f7de0e1..a4b2411b 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -97,3 +97,4 @@ Patches and Suggestions
 - Jonty Wareing <jonty@jonty.co.uk>
 - Shivaram Lingamneni
 - Miguel Turner
+- Rohan Jain (crodjer)
diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index abee9a62..e14c851b 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from .exceptions import (
     URLRequired, SSLError, MissingSchema, InvalidSchema, InvalidURL)
 from .utils import (
     get_encoding_from_headers, stream_untransfer, guess_filename, requote_uri,
-    stream_decode_response_unicode, get_netrc_auth,
+    stream_decode_response_unicode, get_netrc_auth, get_environ_proxies,
     DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH)
 from .compat import (
     cookielib, urlparse, urlunparse, urljoin, urlsplit, urlencode, str, bytes,
@@ -112,10 +112,7 @@ class Request(object):
         # If no proxies are given, allow configuration by environment variables
         # HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY.
         if not self.proxies and self.config.get('trust_env'):
-            if 'HTTP_PROXY' in os.environ:
-                self.proxies['http'] = os.environ['HTTP_PROXY']
-            if 'HTTPS_PROXY' in os.environ:
-                self.proxies['https'] = os.environ['HTTPS_PROXY']
+            self.proxies = get_environ_proxies()
 
         self.data = data
         self.params = params
diff --git a/requests/utils.py b/requests/utils.py
index ecfee47b..8365cc36 100644
--- a/requests/utils.py
+++ b/requests/utils.py
@@ -446,3 +446,19 @@ def requote_uri(uri):
     # Then quote only illegal characters (do not quote reserved, unreserved,
     # or '%')
     return quote(unquote_unreserved(uri), safe="!#$%&'()*+,/:;=?@[]~")
+
+def get_environ_proxies():
+    """Return a dict of environment proxies."""
+
+    proxy_keys = [
+        'all',
+        'http',
+        'https',
+        'ftp',
+        'socks',
+        'no'
+    ]
+
+    get_proxy = lambda k: os.environ.get(k) or os.environ.get(k.upper())
+    proxies = [(key, get_proxy(key + '_proxy')) for key in proxy_keys]
+    return dict([(key, val) for (key, val) in proxies if val])