#AMosaic/http_proxy quest
Hi everyone,
after spending a painful afternoon with setting up my A4000/040 for accessing
the internet via CIS I'm pleased to report that it works. I used the
InterInstall script, BTW, and it worked with next to none problems.
I've got one small niggle. I use AMosaic 2.0beta3 to browse the web, and again
it works, but only using a strange workaround.
I have in my ENV:/ENVARC: directory a file called "http_proxy" (without the
quotation marks), and it contains a single line:
http://www.wupper.de:80/
I used to access the Internet through a private provider that sadly ceased
trading recently. This provider used the domain ".wupper.de". The installion of
AMosaic dates back to that time.
Whenever I access the web and point AMosaic to a new web site, AMosaic reports
looking up www.wupper.de. Am I correct in assuming that AMosaic derives that
address from "http_proxy"? If so, can I further assume that the purpose of
looking up www.wupper.de is to find the correct addresses for URLs? Does
www.wupper.de serve as a name server or some such?
Now, using CIS, I tried to change "http_proxy" to
http://www.compuserve.com:80/
assuming that Compuserve must have such a name server as well, but it didn't
work at all. Whatever URL I enter, I get "Error 404, unable to find the
specified page" (or a similar message to that effect).
Now I've changed "http_proxy" back to its original content, any everything
works fine.
I'm completely befuddled. Altough it all works, I'd like to know why, and
whether I can change "http_proxy" to something with a CompuServe address? I
feel strange accessing another provider when I morally should be using CIS
resources.
Any enlightenment will be much appreciated! <g>
Alex
Alexander Schwassmann // EMail: aschwassmann@art-line.art-line.de
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