paCkeTroUTer Posted November 4, 2003 Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 I am a first time user of Lynx and trying to make it open a website with lynx. Usually I just ignore the GAIM messages(popups) I get when a new email arrives. But today I thought I'll give it a go and clicked "open" when I got the "new email" message and it then opens Lynx browser .... but nuthing happens. A message Making HTTP connection to proxy.iprimus.com.au shows and it just stays there. I then tried a new instance of lynx in the command line and it resulted in the following: [quilon@localhost quilon]$ lynx http://www.techsatcomputers.com Looking up proxy.iprimus.com.au Making HTTP connection to proxy.iprimus.com.au Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.techsatcomputers.com/ [quilon@localhost quilon]$ I remember setting up proxy server when I installed mandrake. I donno if that is causing the problem. Anyone able to help the Lynx newbie ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 4, 2003 Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 First things first, are you sure the remote host is/was up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paCkeTroUTer Posted November 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 The remote host is always up as it is my website. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted November 4, 2003 Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 And the box you're using can reach your website normally, eg pinging it or using a different web browser?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paCkeTroUTer Posted November 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2003 yes I can access the site with other browsers: Konqueror/Mozilla/Firebird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paCkeTroUTer Posted November 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 Anybody else able to help ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted November 5, 2003 Report Share Posted November 5, 2003 you could try looking at your environment variables env or more specifically env | grep HTTP if you have a proxy setup in your env variables then you can disable it export $HTTP_PROXY="" lynx http://domain.name if that fixes it, you will have to find out where Mandrake sets its global env variables Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paCkeTroUTer Posted November 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2003 ok removing the proxy setting from the env, now I am able to browse with lynx from the command line, but not from/though gaim's email pop-up messages. Trying to locate where Mandrake sets its global env variables.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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