Re: LYNX-DEV SOCKS firewall

[David Woolley]

> 
> Problem: is there an equivalent setting in the lynx.cfg file, maybe
> somewhere under the following section: 
> 
>      #http_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/ 

That's because SOCKS is a completely different form of proxy and requires
Lynx to be built against a special library.  I don't know where one gets that
from for Windows, but, if your site is using SOCKS, it means they are probably
Unix based, so it may be possible to get a shell, or captive Lynx, account
on one of the Unix machines, and benefit from a. probably, more stable
version of Lynx.

The only problem is where does one get a TERMCAP/TERMINFO entry that describes
Windows telnet.  VT100 doesn't do it adequataley!

(Note the Unix SOCKS Lynx is a completely different binary.  I don't know
about the fine details of SOCKS or what is available to support it under
Windows, to know how much work, and software cost is involved, but I suspect
a Win32 SOCKS Lynx would require a significant amount of the original
porting effort.)
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