Re: lynx-dev lynx 2.8.2 on solaris via proxy - problem

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, 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.

The "HTTP:" should be "http:" (although normally lynx should canonicalize
that).

When testing, give lynx full "http://...";  URLs, don't rely on lynx
guessing or completing the "http:" scheme part.

> we are using the netscape proxy server. But other proxy servers I know off
> all require a valid URL not file:/ ...

You have to specify the contents of http_proxy with a trailing
slash after the host[:port], as shown in lynx.cfg.

If that's not the reason for your problem, you have to give us some
more specific examples.  Possibly including -trace output.

> Another (minor) issue: on unix all environment variables are defined
> UPPERCASE (by convention) lynx expects lower case only env vars.

As already noted, it's another convention that lynx inherited.
It only applies for the *_proxy variables.

   Klaus