On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Rui Prior wrote: > > a strange thing... if i run lynx or some other user runs it, accesses a > > website and gets all the data, netstat in any of it form or option will > not > > show any http connections... why not? if netscape is loaded, and you do > > netstat you will see http connections, in most cases close_wait state, but > > they will still be there. with lynx - nothing. how come? > > > If you have an environment variable called "http_proxy" setup, then lynx > will use it as proxy server, so it will not connect to port 80 of the > destination host. Just a guess... and netscaps keeps most connections open after it received a page/a file (to be faster for the next one from the same server), lynx does not. c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
