hnsh is a program I wrote to let you catch up with HN from the shell. You can browse the front page, open up stories and open up comments. There are a couple other nifty features, but they're all listed on the page for you to read, so there's no use re-posting them here.
Hacker News, all keyboard, no mouse. Let me know what you think, HN.
I'll have to head off in a while (it's just past midnight here in Australia), but I'll definitely get back to any comments I miss.
Just to be clear, you're trying to run the program from behind a proxy, yeah?
Thanks for the stack trace -- having that makes a big difference :)
I'm not sure I can make it work with an arbitrary proxy, but I'm pretty sure I could get it to work with a proxy you know the address of. Proxies aren't my strong suit, sorry. We'll see what happens!
> you're trying to run the program from behind a proxy, yeah?
That's right.
> I'm not sure I can make it work with an arbitrary proxy
You could assume that users know their own proxy address (e.g. http://proxy.domain.com:80) and offer a prompt for them to input it. Then you can just save it in the config file.
I added an update to the stack trace page with some code for working with proxies:
Hacker News, all keyboard, no mouse. Let me know what you think, HN.
I'll have to head off in a while (it's just past midnight here in Australia), but I'll definitely get back to any comments I miss.