[KLUG Members] Lynx, Proxies, and illiteracy

[Adam Williams]

>>I've read the lynx man page oh so many times.  Set innumerable environment
>>variables like PROTOCOLHTTP, PROTOCOL_HTTP_PROXY to things like
>>kohocton:3128, http://kohocton:3128/, etc....  And I can't get this
>>$&*()_@ 9fu7*&*($ (*&$*()@@ thing to use the proxy server,  it just beeps
>>and comes back with "connection refused",  duh.... And there is nothing in
>>the squidy logs to indicate it even tried.  I've set
>Maybe I've read this wrong. Have you tried the http_proxy in
>/etc/lynx.cfg?

Yep, that worked.  It even asked me for my proxy username/password, sweet.

># Lynx version 2.2 and beyond supports the use of proxy servers that can act
>as
># firewall gateways and caching servers.  They are preferable to the older
># gateway servers.  Each protocol used by Lynx can be mapped separately
>using
># PROTOCOL_proxy environment variables (see Lynx Users Guide).  If you have
>not set

So whats all this PROTOCOL_proxy variables stuff about?  I couldn't get 
this to work at all.