Re: what controls the redirect limit?

Oh but no.
I barely have access to my  gmail via lynx  here  as it is, plus I pay 
for two 
accounts here, including having my site hosted here for a reason.
I like Jude's idea, that way everyone who is a customer benefits.



On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Mouse wrote:

> Karen Lewellen writes, in reply to the patch I posted,
>
>> 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?
>
> What I gave is a change to the source.  If the "service" in question
> lets you compile software yourself, or copy in software compiled
> elsewhere, then you could compile your own version of lynx with that
> change - or any others you want.
>
> At least, in principle.  I don't know you well enough to know whether
> you have the skill (or inclination!) to do that, even if there aren't
> technical restrictions in the way.
>
> Jude DaShiell writes that
>
>> The REDIRECTION_LIMIT variable is the last line in lynx.cfg.
>
> This indicates that the answer depends on which version of lynx is in
> use, because the version I was working with, the version that patch
> applied to, had the limit of 10 hardwired into the code, not
> user-configurable.  That's apparently changed since then, so it depends
> on whether you're using a version before or after that change.  (It's a
> good change; if I'd been more comfortable in the innards of lynx back
> in 2018, or if I'd been more ambitious, I would have done something
> like that myself value rather than just raising the hardwired limit
> from 10 to 25.)
>
> Even if your lynx has that configurability, though, depending on just
> what "service" means here, you may or may not be in a position to use
> your own lynx.cfg.
>
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