Re: [squid-users] "Connection timed out" problem

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:56:52AM +0100, Simon Allenby wrote:
> Check you lynx configuration (/etc/lynx.cfg on my system) file for the
> http_proxy setting. The chances are this is pointing at whatever you were
> using before, or not set at all.

I was manually setting http_proxy from command line (am using bash):
  export http_proxy=http://proxy_host:8080/
before launching lynx.
 

> Can you telnet to the proxy port manually and GET a URL from the net? If
> not, what error page do you get back? Or is the conenction refused?

Connection is closed:

[alex@proxy_host /home/alex]$ telnet proxy_host 8080
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to proxy_host.
Escape character is '^]'.
get http://www.google.com
Connection closed by foreign host.

Thanks.
Received on Tue Jun 05 2001 - 05:18:32 MDT