Re: lynx-dev handling empty value for proxy URLs

[Vlad Harchev]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Mon, 29 May 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> >  Current lynx behaves very strange if proxy URL is an empty string (e.g.
> >     http_proxy= lynx yahoo.com
> 
> IMO, Just Don't Do That.
> 
> >  Lynx will try to use yahoo as proxy. Does anybody consider this as a 
> > desired
> > behaviour? Should it be fixed (by treating empty proxy URL as request not to
> > use proxy)? I think treating empty proxy URL as request not to use proxy is
> > the best behaviour - since bash's commandline like
> >     http_proxy= lynx yahoo.com 
> > will allow easily to run lynx without proxy even if http_proxy is defined in
> > the shell's environment.
> 
> Use
>        (unset http_proxy; lynx yahoo.com)

  This is obvious.

> instead.  Or, normally
>         no_proxy='*' lynx yahoo.com
> should be enough and is more obvious.

   Yes, but this will disable any proxy.
  
   I just wished to know whether that strange behaviour of lynx is definitely
a bug. It looks like it is, so it should be fixed (lynx should either complain
about illegal syntax for proxy's URL or shouldn't use proxy then).
 
>    Klaus
> 
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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