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Re: lynx-dev handling empty value for proxy URLs
From: |
Vlad Harchev |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev handling empty value for proxy URLs |
Date: |
Wed, 31 May 2000 13:40:13 +0500 (SAMST) |
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> Obscure trick of the week:
>
> http_proxy="" src/lynx http://localhost:3128/http://lynx.browser.org/
>
> instead of
>
> http_proxy="http://localhost:3128/" src/lynx http://lynx.browser.org/
Yeah :)
But do think it's useful trick and we (well, probably me) shouldn't fix this
funny bug?
> allows you to put the proxy as part of the URL (which then of course
> isn't really a valid URL any more), so you can test various proxies
> for various URLs in one session...
>
> Well, normal URLs won't work in that session (you can 'fix' some of them
> up manually, by adding a superfluous slash after the hostname).
> And the requests aren't constructed correctly (wrong Host header, so
> will fail for many virtual hosting servers).
>
> Klaus
>
>
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Best regards,
-Vlad
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