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Re: lynx-dev handling empty value for proxy URLs
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: lynx-dev handling empty value for proxy URLs |
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Tue, 30 May 2000 09:45:00 -0500 (CDT) |
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)
instead. Or, normally
no_proxy='*' lynx yahoo.com
should be enough and is more obvious.
Klaus
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