Re: lynx-dev Env var documentation

[Doug Kaufman]

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Klaus Weide wrote:

> > +.B WWW_access_GATEWAY
> > +\fILynx\fR still supports use of gateway servers, with the servers 
> > specified
> > +via "WWW_access_GATEWAY" variables, where "access" is lower case and can be
> > +"http", "ftp", "gopher" or "wais".  Most gateway servers have been
> > +discontinued, but "http://www.w3.org:8001"; is available for wais searches
> > +(note that you do not include a terminal '/' for gateways, but do for 
> > proxies
> > +specified by PROTOCOL_proxy environment variables.
> 
> [ There's a ')' missing somewhere. ] Is it true that
> http://www.w3.org:8001 sometimes works? AFAIK it has been dead for a
> long time.

This has been dead. It must be about a year ago when I submitted the
patch that removed this gateway from the lynx code. This documentation
must have slipped through.
                                 Doug

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