Proxy support in Amaya

Proxy support is provided in Amaya by the W3C Reference Library. You use two variables to tell Amaya whether you want to use or not a proxy on a specific domain, server, URL, etc. These variables are:

• http_proxy, which indicates your HTTP proxy, and
• no_proxy, which describes the servers which must be accessed directly, without a proxy.

Syntax

• http_proxy

  You specify an HTTP proxy using a URL-like syntax:

  http://domain_name:port

  where :port is optional.
• http_noproxy

  This variable which takes a list of space-separated domains which you want to access without a proxy. Each domain can include an optional port. The syntax is:

  domain-name1:port domain-name2:port ...

  where :port is optional.

Specifying the proxies

You can set up the proxy variables by using either the Amaya built-in configuration menus or by using environment variables.

Using the Amaya built-in configuration menus

See the special Maunal section on how to use the Proxy Configuration Menu.

Using environment variables

Amaya uses the environment variables proxy and no_proxy for setting up the proxies. For example, under the UNIX tcsh shell, you can set them up as follows:

setenv http_proxy http://groucho.marx.edu:1028
setenv no_proxy harpo.marx.edu zeppo.marx.edu chico.marx.edu

One way to do this under MS-Windows is to add the following lines to your autoexec.bat file:

set http_proxy=http://groucho.marx.edu:1028
set no_proxy=harpo.marx.edu zeppo.marx.edu chico.marx.edu

Please consult your system's documentation for more complete information on how to specify environment variables.

N.B. If you were running Amaya when you modified the proxy variables, you'll have to restart it in order to take into account the value of the proxy variables.

For more information

• Proxy-support inside libwww