Lynx cannot visit .onion sites

Bug #1977492 reported by Bill Yikes
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Bug Description

Running this:

`torsocks lynx 'https://c6usaa6obkiahck7rkn2phbffb3strd375pfpxmawuexnmectjizyjad.onion/about'`

results in:

  “Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. … lynx: Can't access startfile …”

The same malfunction occurrs with other onion sites as well. But note that running `torsocks w3m <onion site>` has no problem, so it’s a lynx-specific problem.

Unrelated, but worth noting in case this bug report is seen by the admin of the Lynx website:

If you visit the Lynx homepage using a graphical browser over Tor, a Sucuri blockade denies access. But if you run “torsocks lynx https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx.html” suddenly your Tor IP becomes acceptible to their access rules. This is a broken security policy. Tor users should be treated equally regardless of browser. If Tor is not actually a security threat, then Sucuri should be dumped.

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