[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#792532: lynx: Add a CLI fail-safe option to specify a proxy (e.g. "--proxy")
Jack Ryan
noreply at remailer.cpunk.us
Sun Jul 12 17:21:35 UTC 2015
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.
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.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lynx depends on:
ii lynx-cur 2.8.9dev1-2+b1
lynx recommends no packages.
lynx suggests no packages.
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