Re: lynx-dev Dumped

[Michael Warner]

On Thu, Jun 04, 1998, Philip Webb <address@hidden> wrote:

> 980603 5249bmcmn wrote to me: 
> > The version of lynx for vax is 2.4.2.

        [...]

> > The site is: www.something-fishy.com/ed.htm Once on the site
> > click "online support", then click "Remember It Hurts", then
> > click "Visit the Remember It Hurts Web Board Now" ... at that
> > point, just as the site appears, I get dumped.
>
> i had no problem using 2-8: there is a bit of questionable
> HTML there, which the earlier versions of Lynx probably can't
> handle. that's why Lynx supporters keep trying to develop it
> further.

The page currently has 470 links, so my guess is it ran
afoul of a too-small MAX_LINKS (or something like that)
limit.  The limit was raised in version 2.7, but I don't
remember the details (like the old/new limits, or exact
name).

-- 
Michael Warner 
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