Package: lynx Version: 2.8.9dev1-2 Followup-For: Bug #791452 I am the submitter. After more tests, there are perhaps multiple bugs here. I attempted to change test sites, because torstatus.blutmagie.de is a large document.
These commands cause lynx to hang: env http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/ lynx http://check.torproject.org/ env https_proxy=https://127.0.0.1:8118/ lynx https://check.torproject.org/ I suspect that check.torproject.org redirects to https in the first case. But why should the redirection fail? The proxy (privoxy in my case) should be able to handle either. I'm not sure if this is a privoxy bug or a lynx bug. The proxy is ignored in these cases: env http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/ lynx https://check.torproject.org/ env http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/ lynx https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ env http_proxy=https://127.0.0.1:8118/ lynx https://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ This works: env http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118/ lynx http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ env http_proxy=http://localhost:8118/ lynx http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ env https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118 http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118\ lynx -dump https://check.torproject.org/ Apparently blutmagie.de does not do an https redirect. Strangely, the only way to access https://check.torproject.org/ over the proxy is to set both proxy variables. I have no idea why setting https_proxy alone is insufficient. Another complication that I encountered was IPv4 vs IPv6. Originally I had this line in the privoxy config: listen-address localhost:8118 The effect was that localhost became ::1 (the IPv6 equivelant to 127.0.0.1). Then lynx would only work if invoked using ::1, not 127.0.0.1. Firefox is better in this regard. That is, when Firefox is told the proxy host is "localhost", it apparently tries both ::1 and 127.0.0.1. Lynx could be improved to have the same smarts. Anyway, the fix for me was to force privoxy onto IPv4 (as it seems silly to use IPv6 for LAN addressing), by configuring privoxy this way: listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118 -- 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 lynx depends on: ii lynx-cur 2.8.9dev1-2+b1 lynx recommends no packages. lynx suggests no packages. -- 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
