Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx through firewall

[Joseph Scanlan]

On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Vijay Anisetti
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I wanted to know if "lynx" is capable of running via a firewall.
> Thank you very much for your help.

Yes.

I've done this two different ways.  On Un*x systems set
environment variable http_proxy to http://relay:8080/ . 
VMS is similar using logicals.  One advantage of shell
variables or logicals is they are available for other
browsers as well.  NCSA Mosaic will use them, I don't know
about any others.

On my Windows 95 machine, I edited lynx.cfg to set
http_proxy.  This was the first thing I tried on my PC and
it worked.

This assumes you have a proxy server running on host relay
using port 8080.  lynx.cfg has variables for other proxies
you can set, if your firewall supports them.

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