@lazer you can edit the environment variables in Control Panel, System, Advanced, Environment Variables.
To the original question, if your Lynx binary uses a batch file (for the stylesheet etc...) you can set the http proxy in the batch file.
Or set it system wide in the control panel.
I use this with a batch file below to browse TOR with Polipo. It's great when you want to use TOR but don't want to launch your bloat browser or have a slower computer.
@rem $LynxId: lynx.bat,v 1.1 2007/08/01 23:54:17 tom Exp $ @rem Claudio Santambrogio (csant.info) @ECHO OFF command /C set term=vt100 set home=%CD% set temp=%HOME%\tmp set lynx_cfg=%HOME%\lynx-demo.cfg set lynx_lss=%HOME%\opaque.lss **set http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8118** %HOME%\lynx.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
My batch file to launch TOR + Polipo is below:
cd "\PortableApps\TORBrowser-0.2.3.25\Tor Browser\App" start tor.exe /min cd "\PortableApps\polipo-20080907-win32" start /min polipo.exe -c /PortableApps/polipo-20080907-win32/polipo.conf
My modifications to the polipo.conf file that is used in the above batch file is below:
proxyAddress = "127.0.0.1" proxyPort = 8118 socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050" socksProxyType = socks5
The rest of the options are already correct in the default file that comes with the Polipo Proxy. If you want to access the TOR network from all computers on your home LAN, change this parameter from 127.0.0.1 to your LANs ip range:
allowedClients = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.0/24