Re: lynx and proxy

[Jim Farrand <jim@farrand.net>]

Renai LeMay wrote:

> how do I set Lynx to use a http proxy?

>From the Lynx manpage:

"Lynx supports the use of  proxy  servers
that  can  act  as firewall gateways and
caching servers.  They are preferable to
the    older    gateway   servers   (see
WWW_access_GATEWAY, below).  Each proto-
col  used  by  Lynx, (http, ftp, gopher,
etc), can be mapped separately  by  set-
ting  environment  variables of the form
PROTOCOL_proxy  (literally:  http_proxy,
ftp_proxy,    gopher_proxy,   etc),   to
"http://some.server.dom:port/";.      See
Lynx  Users Guide for additional details
and examples."

So, if you use bash for example:

export http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/

Replace localhost:8080 with the real name:port of your proxy.

Regards,
Jim