Hi,
Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Given your confirmation that the behaviour itself is intended, I think
> > the "-only-proxies" option is definitely misnamed as it does not have
> > "tor" in its name anywhere and its current name suggests something
> > different than it does..
> >
> > Regards, Axel
>
> The fact that this option is for tor is mentioned in the dialog box:
Yes, it mentions tor there, but not much more.
> "[X] Connect only via proxies or Socks (useful for tor)"
> and in the manual page:
> -only-proxies <0>/<1>
> (default 0)
> "1" causes that Links won't initiate any non-proxy connection.
> It is useful for anonymization with tor or similar networks.
"useful for" doesn't say anywhere that it overrides the UA setting
unconditionally and something different that "only useful for tor" or
"only meant to be used for anonymizing proxies like tor".
> Command line options should be small, I don't think it's necessary to
> extend the option name to be longer.
What about "-only-tor"? or even "-use-tor". That would be even
shorter. (But yes, it probably suggests too much.) So what about
"-anon" or "-anonymize"? That'd hopefully be generic enough that
people read the man page for details.
IMHO at least the description should be extended and clarified to
avoid irritated bug reports like this.
Regards, Axel
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