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

[Jude DaShiell]

Good news here.  The REDIRECTION_LIMIT variable is the last line in
lynx.cfg.  I just set mine to 10000.  For anyone using lynx on a service,
copying lynx.cfg to a user directory then running
lynx -c ./lynx.cfg will use your copy and not the system's copy of
lynx.cfg.  You would need to chmod lynx.cfg so you could edit it once in
your user directory though.


On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> ...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. :-?  - Mouse
> >      */
> > -    if (redirection_attempts > 10) {
> > +    if (redirection_attempts > 25) {
> >  redirection_attempts = 0;
> >  HTAlert(TOO_MANY_REDIRECTIONS);
> >  return NO;
> >
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