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

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 = confirmed

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 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.

> Can you do a straight HTTP connection and verify that it's being proxied
> as expected?

I tried and it didn't for me, at least not on jessie where the report
IIRC was written.

I've now tried to following on Sid:

env http_proxy=http://localhost:8118/ lynx http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/

It says:

   You are not using Tor You do not appear to be using Tor

What I also noticed:

"telnet localhost 8118" works as well as "telnet ::1 8118" works, but
"telnet 127.0.0.1 8118" does not work: Connection refused

Any chance that lynx only supports HTTP proxies on IPv4 and silently
ignores the proxy if it doesn't work? That would explain the two
different findings once by the original reported and me (who can
reproduce the issue) and once by Andy who can't reproduce it.

Andy: Have you tried it with Tor as proxy on port 8118 as reported or
with a different proxy?

		Regards, Axel
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