On Tue, 30 May 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Mon, 29 May 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> > Current lynx behaves very strange if proxy URL is an empty string (e.g.
> > http_proxy= lynx yahoo.com
>
> IMO, Just Don't Do That.
>
> > Lynx will try to use yahoo as proxy. Does anybody consider this as a desired
> > behaviour? Should it be fixed (by treating empty proxy URL as request not to
> > use proxy)? I think treating empty proxy URL as request not to use proxy is
> > the best behaviour - since bash's commandline like
> > http_proxy= lynx yahoo.com
> > will allow easily to run lynx without proxy even if http_proxy is defined in
> > the shell's environment.
>
> Use
> (unset http_proxy; lynx yahoo.com)
This is obvious.
> instead. Or, normally
> no_proxy='*' lynx yahoo.com
> should be enough and is more obvious.
Yes, but this will disable any proxy.
I just wished to know whether that strange behaviour of lynx is definitely
a bug. It looks like it is, so it should be fixed (lynx should either complain
about illegal syntax for proxy's URL or shouldn't use proxy then).
> Klaus
>
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Best regards,
-Vlad
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