Re: lynx-dev Lynx on a network (unanswered query)

[pg]

In a recent note, address@hidden said:

> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:49:23 +73900 (EST)
> 
> > 990105 Mark Fowler wrote: 
> > > I work for the New York State Office for Technology 
> > > & have been using Lynx as reviewer of accessibility in NY web pages. 
> > > Is there a way to set Lynx up to run off the network we have here 
> > > instead of looking for a modem?  We have a proxy server behind a 
> > > firewall, 
> > > but I would think it would work just as well as our graphical browsers. 
> >  
> > no-one seems to have replied to this serious query, 
> > which involves accessibility to the WWW among other things. 
> 
> I'm not sure how to respond to his query since it appears to apply to
> the dos environment with some sort of modem interface - I use lynx only
> via a network connection (or to local files)
>   
I, also, saw this and wished to help.  At this point, the right thing
is to ask Mark Fowler for more details about his network configuration.
If Lynx goes "looking for a modem", it probably detects some SLIP/PPP
configuration.  But why do the graphical browsers not do the same?

Is it perhaps a matter of defining the proxy in lynx.cfg?  Lynx
doesn't use the Java autoproxy, so this might be the problem.

Also, a Lynx.trace log might be revealing, if Mark can capture and
save one from the "lynx -trace" command.

-- gil