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Re: LYNX-DEV SOCKS firewall
From: |
David Woolley |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV SOCKS firewall |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:04:17 +0100 (BST) |
>
> 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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