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diff --git a/lynx_help/keystrokes/environments.html b/lynx_help/keystrokes/environments.html index 7a832e8a..a735894a 100644 --- a/lynx_help/keystrokes/environments.html +++ b/lynx_help/keystrokes/environments.html @@ -97,12 +97,12 @@ Environment Variables Used By Lynx: that can act as firewall gateways and caching servers. They are preferable to the older gateway servers (see - WWW_access_GATEWAY, below). Each protocol - used by Lynx, (http, ftp, + WWW_access_GATEWAY, below). + Each protocol used by Lynx (http, ftp, gopher, etc), can be mapped separately - by setting environment variables of - the form PROTOCOL_proxy (literally: - http_proxy, ftp_proxy, gopher_proxy, + by setting environment variables of + the form PROTOCOL_proxy (literally: + http_proxy, ftp_proxy, gopher_proxy, etc), to "http://some.server.dom:port/". See <a href="#proxy">details and examples</a>. @@ -343,8 +343,11 @@ Proxy: proxying for all clients on your system.) If you wish to override the use of a proxy server for specific hosts or - entire domains you may use the "no_proxy" environment variable. Here is - an example use of "no_proxy": + entire domains you may use the "no_proxy" environment variable. + The no_proxy variable can be a comma-separated list of strings defining + no-proxy zones in the DNS domain name space. If a tail substring of the + domain-path for a host matches one of these strings, transactions with that + node will not be proxied. Here is an example use of "no_proxy": UNIX setenv no_proxy "host.domain.dom, domain1.dom, domain2" @@ -360,9 +363,13 @@ Proxy: and gopher services (if normally proxied) would still be included, as would any news or wais services on other hosts. + Warning: Note that setting 'il' as an entry in this list + will block proxying for the .mil domain as well as the .il domain. + If the entry is '.il' this will not happen. + If you wish to override the use of a proxy server completely (i.e., globally override any existing proxy variables), set the value of - "no_proxy" to "*". + "no_proxy" to "*". This is the only allowed use of * in no_proxy. Note that Lynx treats file URLs on the local host as requests for direct access to the file, and does not attempt ftp if that fails. @@ -374,8 +381,9 @@ Proxy: Other WWW clients may require that the http server's configuration file have "Map file:* ftp:*" in it to perform that conversion. - The proxy and no_proxy variables also can be set at run time via - lynx.cfg. + If you have not set NNTPSERVER, proxy or no_proxy environment variables + you can set them at run time via the configuration file lynx.cfg + (this will not override external settings). <a name="dos"><em> Win32 (95/NT) and 386 DOS |