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Re: LYNX-DEV Automatic proxies
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pg |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Automatic proxies |
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Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:42:13 -0700 (MST) |
In a recent note, Heikki Kantola said:
> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:01:48 +0200
>
> Sorry, no points for the last sentence, Java and JavaScript share just
> some part of name and some command syntax, otherwise they're whole
> different beasts. But yes, it's quite true that automatic conversion
Thank you for the correction.
> might be tricky, but manual conversion should still be possible as you
> certainly can spot which hosts need to be included in no_proxy-list
This is not at all certain. If the no_proxy list needs to be
"all hosts except emporium", I need to identify them. This is
not necessarily a straightforward task.
> and what proxyhost you should use by default.
>
> > 2) Lynx's proxy definitions are static; Automatic Proxy exists to
> > provide dynamic proxy identification. For example, for a while we
> > had a situation like:
> >
> > emporium.stortek.com requires proxy; otherwise
> > *.stortek.com requires no proxy; otherwise
> > * requires proxy.
> >
> > This configuration is handled easily with a couple "if" statements
> > in a script. In Lynx, it can be handled only by enumerating all
> > the hosts that match the wildcard in the second line, but aren't
> > "emporium". There might be hundreds.
>
> Um, provided that those proxies aren't different ones for different
> URLs I think I that setting no_proxy to "emporium.stortek.com" would
> work fine. By default proxies in Lynx do apply to all hosts/domains
> not found in no_proxy-list.
>
You appear to have misread. I needed to set no_proxy not to "emporium",
but to "all local hosts _except_ emporium". I know of no simple way
to represent this in Lynx's conventions.
-- gil