Re: Lynx on Axplinux

[Bart-Jan Vrielink <b j vrielink de-boulevard nl>]

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Bernard Chew, Lai Wan wrote:

> 
> So far, Lynx is the only browser that works for me on Alphalinux.  I 
> don't really mind the text-only interface.  However, there is a 
> problem. My ISP requires that all external http access goes through 
> their proxy server. Is there a way to get Lynx to point to a proxy 
> server for http requests, rather than talking to the http server 
> directly?

Besides modifying your lynx.cfg, you could set:
ftp_proxy=http://proxy-hostname:port/
http_proxy=http://proxy-hostname:port/

This could be used by other programs.

Tot ziens,

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