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Re: lynx-dev lynx 2.8.2 on solaris via proxy - problem
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Leonid Pauzner |
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Re: lynx-dev lynx 2.8.2 on solaris via proxy - problem |
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Thu, 22 Jul 1999 00:58:41 +0400 (MSD) |
21-Jul-99 13:27 Hodorov, Steven V (Steve), CSCIO wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm writing to inform you of a problem I discovered using lynx behind a
> proxy server.
> After I defined our proxy in the cfg file and ran lynx, the proxy server
> complained that lynx was using a non-compliant request structure. Instead of
> asking the proxy for HTTP://www.XYZ.com <HTTP://www.XYZ.com> it asks for
> file:/www.XYZ.com.
Perhaps your "http_proxy" string in lynx.cfg has not finished with trailing
slash "/" as proposed in samples.
> we are using the netscape proxy server. But other proxy servers I know off
> all require a valid URL not file:/ ...
> Another (minor) issue: on unix all environment variables are defined
> UPPERCASE (by convention) lynx expects lower case only env vars.
seems proxy variables are lowercase...
> Thanks
> Steven Hodorov
> address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>