Bug#792532: lynx: Add a CLI fail-safe option to specify a proxy (e.g. --proxy)

2015-07-18 Thread Andy Valencia
[Jack Ryan nore...@remailer.cpunk.us writes:] Having a commandline --proxy option would ensure that the users expectation is known to the tool. Then if anything is wrong with the users syntax or something goes wrong with the proxy, lynx can fail safely and print an error. If user

Bug#792532: lynx: Add a CLI fail-safe option to specify a proxy (e.g. --proxy)

2015-07-15 Thread Jack Ryan
Package: lynx Version: 2.8.9dev1-2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, It is risky to rely on an environment variable to specify a proxy. Any number of things can wrong, as we know from bug 791452. E.g., a user may think incorrectly that a proxy will be used, and have no idea of any failure.