[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#791452: Bug#791452: lynx: http_proxy variable silently ignored!

[Andrew Valencia]

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 Valencia <lynxomatic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 to move the proxy test to be done first in is_url().  But don't be
> surprised if what you find is that this bug needs to be renamed "HTTP proxy
> is broken".  I'll try and set up a proxy server RSN if nobody else is
> jumping
> on this.
>
> Andy Valencia
>
> On 7/4/15, Nomen Nescio <nobody at dizum.com> wrote:
>> Package: lynx
>> Version: 2.8.9dev1-2
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> The "http_proxy" variable is silently ignored!
>> ...
>