Re: LYNX-DEV HTTP proxy for lynx

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Amish Chana wrote:

> How do I set up lynx to use a HTTP proxy server?
> I have "version 2.3 BETA" for Linux.

Well, first of all I would SERIOUSLY recommend upgrading since the
current version in 2.6 with some patches.  I think you will find that 2.3
BETA won't handle a lot of the HTML on the web today, and some will even
cause it to crash.

Next, on to your actual question, I would recommend that you look at
userdefs.h and lynx.cfg which define the operation of lynx and are
self-documenting.  Here is the relative section from lynx.cfg.

# Proxy variables
# Lynx version 2.2 and beyond supports the use of proxy servers that can
# act as firewall gateways and caching servers.  They are preferable to
# the older gateway servers.  Each protocol used by Lynx can be mapped
# separately using PROTOCOL_proxy environment variables (see INSTALLATION).
# If you have not set them externally, you can set them at run time via
# this configuration file.  They will not override external settings.
# The no_proxy variable can be a comma-separated list of hosts which should
# not be proxied, or an asterisk to override all proxy variables.
# Note that on VMS they are set as process logicals rather than symbols,
# to preserve lowercasing, and will outlive the Lynx image.
#
#http_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#https_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#ftp_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#gopher_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#news_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#snews_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#nntp_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#wais_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#finger_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#cso_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#no_proxy:host.domain.dom

It should be pretty self-explanatory from that. :)

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