How do I set proxy for lynx

Question

I am trying to run lynx in my perl cgi script so it extracts some text from wen page. I am doing it as in the following manner in my script,

lynx -source -preparsed "$url" > data.txt

But I get the following error in my server's error_log:

Looking up www.xyz.com

Making HTTP connection to www.xyz.com Alert!:

Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile xyz.com

I get the same error when I tried to execute lynx from the command line for root user. But the perl script and the lynx command work normally when I run it in normal user.Our newtwork consists of proxy settings which I had done in /etc/lynx-site.cfg as PROTOCOL_proxy="http://proxy.abcdxyz.ac.in:8080".But it hasnot given any result.

Using Lynx for this is a really bad idea. You should use LWP instead (or, at least HTTP::Tiny which has been included with Perl since 2011). — Dave Cross, Sep 28 '15 at 12:56

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 02 '18 at 15:41

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Set a Lynx proxy as follows:

Edit /etc/lynx-site.cfg
Add:
```
http_proxy:http://proxy.abc.xyz:8080
```

The proxy is set.

edited Nov 02 '18 at 15:41

Dave Jarvis

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answered Sep 29 '15 at 05:55

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How do I set proxy for lynx

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