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Hi Andy,
Andrew Valencia wrote:
More research... http proxying seems to be working fine.
Not for me. I can reproduce this issue easily.
I notice that you specify an HTTP proxy, but go out using HTTPS.
Yes, but
* according to the man page there is no https_proxy
[Axel Beckert a...@debian.org writes:]
* according to the man page there is no https_proxy variable,
* http_proxy should work for https as well as I read it,
* it doesn't work with the mentioned host but http instead of https
for me either.
I read lynx as thinking of the world as
Code inspection leads me to LYUtils.c, routine is_url(), which calls
LYCheckForProxyURL() only if the URL type is not known. HTTP, of course, is
known--thus it quietly ignores the proxy environment variable config.
If another dev has a proxy server ready to go, an interesting experiment
would be
More research... http proxying seems to be working fine.
I notice that you specify an HTTP proxy, but go out using HTTPS.
Can you try using an HTTPS proxy (sometimes problematic, I know)?
Can you do a straight HTTP connection and verify that it's being proxied
as expected?
On 7/5/15, Andrew
Package: lynx
Version: 2.8.9dev1-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
The http_proxy variable is silently ignored! This is very
dangerous, because a privoxy/tor user who relies on this setting for
privacy will be compromised, and they generally will not even be aware
of the compromise because
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