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Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work
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Larry W. Virden, x2487 |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work |
Date: |
Fri, 16 May 1997 12:26:33 -0400 |
> I agree, but it appears to be the only way at present to use lynx to access
> protected documents non-interactively. A more elegant solution would be to
That means that for a secure environment, one won't be able to access
protected documents non-interactively. That puts lynx on a par with IE and
Netscape ...
>provide an option to dump/load the authorisation data structures (hostname,
>realm, uid, password, URL-mask), effectively allowing lynx to "remember" this
>information between sessions. This would, of course, require a file with
>suitable permissions (ie none, except to the owner), probably in the user's
>home directory (did anyone say ".lynxrc"?). A stop-gap solution would be to
This would be at least on a par with netscape cookie jars. lynxrc should
be 700 and owned by the user and in a directory where only the user
or a trusted account can write before writing sensitive info out.
>get lynx to modify its arglist to hide the sensitive argument(s), but maybe
>this can't be done on all platforms?
I believe earlier discussions on this list led to the conclusion that few
of the main players allowed sensitive arguments to be hidden this way these
days.
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- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, (continued)
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Brian Tillman, x8425, 1997/05/09
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508, 1997/05/09
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508, 1997/05/09
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Robert Bonomi, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Alex Lyons A32/373-Winfrith Tel2368 FAX2508, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work,
Larry W. Virden, x2487 <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Al Gilman, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, T.E.Dickey, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Benjamin C. W. Sittler, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Greg Marr, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Foteos Macrides, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Robert Bonomi, 1997/05/16
- Re: LYNX-DEV Getting proxies to work, Laura Eaves, 1997/05/16