Re: internet access through proxy...

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

Manish Regmi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   My PC uses a proxy server to connect to the internet. I can easily
> assess the internet by changing the Browser options. But i am unable
> to use lynx, ssh, traceroute etc.
> Do i need to change all of their configuration files?
> If yes which one and where?
> Is there any generic way?

The purpose of a proxy server ... from the network manager's point of 
view, anyway ... is to prevent LAN users from accessing the Internet 
with arbitrary applications. So the way to force users to use it is to 
block direct access to the Internet at the firewall/router.

In a proxy-server setting, you can only proxy the apps that your proxy 
server is willing to proxy ... and those are typically only ftp, http, 
and https (and maybe a couple of others I'm not thinking of right now).

So no, there is no generic way to use the proxy server for everything. 
For ssh and traceroute, there is most likely no way at all ... and no 
one can tell you about "etc".

As to lynx, since it is an http client, there is no reason in principle 
why it could not work with a proxy server. Its man page seems to say it 
can do so via ENV variables of the form *_proxy, for example http_proxy 
and ftp_proxy ... but I haven't tried this. So you might look at the man 
page ... down in the section on COnfiguration ... and experiment a bit.

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