From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 9 07:39:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25915 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 07:39:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25890 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 07:39:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.054 #18) id 0znk8R-000BgK-00; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 13:58:35 +0000 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 13:58:35 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http_proxy, was: Re: lynx: Alert! Unable to access document Message-ID: <19981209135835.C44847@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19981207184726.A17584@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.17i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Leif Neland wrote: > So how is a http_proxy supposed to be specified? I want to use http_proxy > and ftp_proxy for fetch and wget too, so don't say I just write it in > lynx.cfg lynx needs it in the format: http_proxy=http://some.host.com:8080/ ftp_proxy=http://some.host.com:8080/ AFAIK. fetch needs a different format, and the variable names are in uppercase. RTFM for more details. Not sure about wget, I don't use it. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message