setting lynx variables

sancho5 · 12-31-2001, 09:00 AM

Greetz all,
Has anyone successfully used the Lynx www browser with a proxy server before? I was looking at the docs and see that (apparently) the proxy is set with an envionmental variable of "PROTOCOL_PROXY", so in my case, "http_proxy=address

ort". What I have run then is:

Code:

http_proxy=proxy.server.address:8080

Code:

export http_proxy

This is run from BASH; have I properly set the variable, and should lynx at this point recognize and accept that variable?

After doing this, I try to open a page in Lynx and get:
"# lynx www.yahoo.com

Looking up www.yahoo.com first
Can't Access `http://www.yahoo.com/'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile

Any ideas?

bluecadet · 12-31-2001, 09:39 AM

try setting the right line in the /etc/lynx.cfg file:

http_proxy:http://some.server.dom

ort/