Re: LYNX-DEV Lack of timeout

[Philip Webb]

980325 Wayne Buttles wrote: 
> I have been using lynx as a web checker now for about a year
> Sometimes one of my web servers will freak out & accept connections,
> but never respond with data.  This locks lynx up waiting for something
> to happen, and it will stay this way until the process is killed.
> I have seen one hung for 6 hours before. 
> What can I do to make lynx time out automatically?
 
an obvious quicky is: can you do  ^z  in a batch file to check the time?
but  2  more thoughts, which have come up before occasionally:

(1) how easy would it be to add a line to  lynx.cfg  to set the time allowed
    before Lynx gives up on a site (incl a name look-up)?
(2) instead of the dummy cursor, couldn't the current time be displayed?

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