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

[Karen Lewellen]

...I seem to be lost.
My hope is that there is something I can influence, as I use Lynx on a 
service, not as a part of my own computer.
So I am unsure just where that would go exactly?
kare



On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Mouse wrote:

> > [...], 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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