Re: lynx-dev proxy env var

[Al Gilman]

will Lynx take a proxy definition from an environment variable?

Yes.  See the INSTALLATION file in the distribution (e.g. in the
breakout at the development site).

This sorta leaves these questions:

Shell usage in the definition of the variable.  Did you really
get a value set for the variable?

spelling of the proxy's location: you need to put
"http://path.to.node";, I think, and not just "path.to.node"
because the port defaults given the http: scheme but the http:
scheme does not default just knowing that this is a proxy.

Timing of variable-setting by your "dynamic" script and
variable-reading by lynx.  I don't know if lynx reads the
variable once on startup, or when.

Al

to follow up on what Nitin Gupta said:

> Does lynx take a env. var for the proxy server? in the lynx.cfg file, I set
> the proxy server to my.proxy.server and all works fine, but sometimes I need
> not to use the proxy server so I commented out the var from the cfg file and
> tried setting the http_proxy env. var but it never works! whenever I export
> http_proxy="my.proxy.server", lynx comes back saying that it couldn't find
> the page. but the same server setting in the cfg file makes everything work
> fine.
> 
> I'm trying to set up a script which takes in user input and dynamically
> set's/unsets the lynx proxy var, is there a way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Nitin
>