Re: lynx limit of 10 refresh URLs

[Patrick Olson <compman@internetcds.com>]

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Brian Butler wrote:

> Hello.  I want to use lynx to visit a group of sites.  After login, there is
> a cookie-setting ritual involving many redirections.  After ten of these,
> lynx complains that its limit of ten refresh URLs has been reached.  Then it
> stops.
> 
> I would like to increase this limit.  Reading  the man page (man lynx)
> and searching some lists and newsgroups have yielded close but no exact
> information.   I suspect it's a lynx.conf thing, and just need a pointer to
> the variable to set or the command line switch to throw.

I think it is the DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE parameter in /etc/lynx.cfg for two
reasons: 

1. It appears to default to 10

2. It says the "minimum allowed value is 2, for the current document and
at least one to fetch."  I would tend to guess that it might want to hold
all the documents in cache until it reaches a final URL.

Before modifying the lynx.cfg file, the easy way is to try the command
line argument -cache=NUMBER.  For example,

lynx -cache=10

wouldn't help because 10 is the existing limit.

I hope this helps,
Patrick