Package: w3m Version: 0.5.3-19 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
It is risky to rely on an environment variable to specify a proxy. A variety of things can wrong without detection, as we know from bug 791425. E.g., a user may think incorrectly that a proxy will be used, and have no idea of any failure (danger!). Having a commandline "--proxy" option would ensure that the users expectation is known to the tool. Then if anything is wrong with the users syntax or something goes wrong with the proxy, w3m can fail safely and print an error. FWIW, the above suggestion is mirrored to the lynx package as well. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages w3m depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libgc1c2 1:7.2d-6.4 ii libgpm2 1.20.4-6.1+b2 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1k-3+deb8u1 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages w3m recommends: ii ca-certificates 20141019 Versions of packages w3m suggests: pn cmigemo <none> ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5 ii mime-support 3.58 pn w3m-el <none> pn w3m-img <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
