Deboo ^ wrote:
On 2/27/06, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Deboo ^ wrote:
How to use proxy authentication with lynx/links/elinks? I have googled a
lot
about this but couldn't find a eral solution. Putting "export
HTTP_PROXY=
user:password@proxy:port in.bashrc doesn't seem to work. I get an access
denied page. Is there no solution to this? Do we need to use X apps only
to
use a proxy?
RTFM
man lynx
=ID:PASSWD
set authorization ID and password for a protected proxy server at
startup. Be sure to protect any script files which use this switch.
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Cheers
John
I used the -p auth=ID:PASSWORD (replacing the words with my real proxy
username/pass) but still lynx says "Making connection to google.com or
whatever site I try for. What could be the problem?
Time to learn to use strace and/or tcpdump
strace can be used to trace (classes of) system calls: maybe
strace -f -o trace.log -e trace-open,network lynx ....
tcpdump can be used to trace selected network traffic. You can select by
combinations of source/destination, protocol, port and (of course)
interface. It needs to be run with root privilage,
Probably, neither is installed by default, but both are part of the distro.
