Re: lynx-dev handling empty value for proxy URLs

[Vlad Harchev]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> >    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).
> 
> Obscure trick of the week:
> 
>    http_proxy="" src/lynx http://localhost:3128/http://lynx.browser.org/
> 
> instead of
> 
>    http_proxy="http://localhost:3128/"; src/lynx http://lynx.browser.org/

 Yeah :)

 But do think it's useful trick and we (well, probably me) shouldn't fix this
funny bug?
 
> allows you to put the proxy as part of the URL (which then of course
> isn't really a valid URL any more), so you can test various proxies
> for various URLs in one session...
> 
> Well, normal URLs won't work in that session (you can 'fix' some of them
> up manually, by adding a superfluous slash after the hostname).
> And the requests aren't constructed correctly (wrong Host header, so
> will fail for many virtual hosting servers).
> 
>    Klaus
> 
> 
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 Best regards,
  -Vlad


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