Re: [Lynx-dev] what controls the redirect limit?

[Mouse]

> [...], I reach a lynx error that says something like maximum number
> of 10 redirects reached..and I can go no further.

> What in Lynx controls the number of redirects the browser considers
> safe, and how can I increase that number?

A few years back, I was working at a job that, "thanks" to a confluence
of various reasons, ended up with me wanting to use lynx to read
Google-hosted mail through their webmail interface.

I promptly ran into the ten-redirection limit.

As for how I dealt with it, turns out I still have the commit:

commit 028e3e6312bd2a6d108ec4755165091be9426ce4
Author: Mouse <mouse@...redacted...>
Date:   Tue Mar 20 09:37:26 2018 -0400

    Boost redirection count limit to 25.

diff --git a/LYMessages_en.h b/LYMessages_en.h
index b0c7c44..85b490e 100644
--- a/LYMessages_en.h
+++ b/LYMessages_en.h
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@
 #define ERROR_UNCOMPRESSING_TEMP gettext("Error uncompressing temporary file!")
 #define UNSUPPORTED_URL_SCHEME gettext("Unsupported URL scheme!")
 #define UNSUPPORTED_DATA_URL gettext("Unsupported data: URL!  Use SHOWINFO, 
for now.")
-#define TOO_MANY_REDIRECTIONS gettext("Redirection limit of 10 URL's reached.")
+#define TOO_MANY_REDIRECTIONS gettext("Redirection limit of 25 URLs reached.")
 #define ILLEGAL_REDIRECTION_URL gettext("Illegal redirection URL received from 
server!")
 #define        SERVER_ASKED_FOR_REDIRECTION \
  gettext("Server asked for %d redirection of POST content to")
diff --git a/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTAccess.c 
b/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTAccess.c
index 4c2c1be..a1f4b7e 100644
--- a/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTAccess.c
+++ b/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTAccess.c
@@ -769,8 +769,10 @@ static BOOL HTLoadDocument(const char *full_address,       
/* may include #fragment */
      * of 10 redirections per requested URL from a user, because the HTTP/1.1
      * will no longer specify a restriction to 5, but will leave it up to the
      * browser's discretion, in deference to Microsoft.  - FM
+     *
+     * Upped to 25 because 10 breaks gmail. :-þ  - Mouse
      */
-    if (redirection_attempts > 10) {
+    if (redirection_attempts > 25) {
        redirection_attempts = 0;
        HTAlert(TOO_MANY_REDIRECTIONS);
        return NO;

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