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icedude 12-30-2004 06:00 AM

Web browsing in text mode
 
Hi

I'm using Links-2.1pre14 to brows the web but it cant find a connection.
We are using a proxy server and im dont know where to enter the settings or
change any thing

Could someone please give me advise.

amfoster 12-30-2004 06:12 AM

proxy etc are usually set in the config files. I am not sure what browser you are using. If it is links, the config is in the ~/.link directory. Just man links but the syntax is something like
host:port to set what the proxy server is.

If you are using lynx, just man that and it has a user guide in it.

What web based browser are you using?
links, lynx, elinks, w3m?

icedude 12-30-2004 06:20 AM

I'm using Links for browsing the net in text mode.

amfoster 12-30-2004 06:32 AM

do an info on links. It will show you the format for the config file, or you can set that from the command line with this option:

-http-proxy <host:port>

So, create a configuration file for it, or make an alias in your ~/.bashrc file

alias links="links -http-proxy xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080

or whatever your proxy info is.

then run
. ~/.bashrc or log out and log back in (your choice)

cl2imson 12-30-2004 06:45 AM

well what I did was I added the following line to my ~/.bash_profile file and it works in both lynx and elinks...(and any other command line network proggie as far as I know)

export http_proxy="10.3.0.3:8080"

or whateva ur pl2oxy addl2ess is.

good luck.


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