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lynx-dev Changing timeout length
From: |
Kevin A. Jett |
Subject: |
lynx-dev Changing timeout length |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:19:48 -0500 |
Hi,
We are using Lynx in a web-spider script to download a large number of
HTML pages from various websites on a list by first doing a "lynx -dump"
followed by a "lynx -source" on each page. However, I noticed that if
Lynx attempts to do either of these on a page that cannot be accessed
(for example, if its server is down), it waits a ridiculously long time
before it finally "gives up" and moves on to the next file. It seemed
to try to access the page for about 13 minutes, so I was wondering if
this was a value specified in the source code or if it just happened to
take that long. I didn't see a way to set the timeout length in the
lynx.conf file, so I was wondering if there's some way to change this in
the source code. If you could provide any assistance on this I'd really
appreciate it.
Thanks,
Kevin Jett
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