lynx-dev Changing timeout length

[Kevin A. Jett]

I sent this message the other day, but I wasn't on the lynx-dev mailing
list yet, so I didn't know if anyone had received it.

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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