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lynx-dev Setting Lynx URL Timeouts
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James Au |
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lynx-dev Setting Lynx URL Timeouts |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:07:47 -0600 |
Hello,
I'm currently using Lynx 2.8 as an "link-validator" for a *whole* bunch
of HTML documents I have. Basically, I'm using Lynx as a component in a
Perl script on UNIX (which handles the details of scanning through the HTML
documents).
I'm using the following Lynx command as the heart of my Perl link
checker:
lynx <some_url> -mime_headers
But it seems that Lynx seems to "wait" an exceedingly long time
(~5minutes) before giving up on non-responsive HTTP location and returning:
lynx: Can't access startfile <some_url>
When my Perl script sees this, it reports that the link is dead and
moves on.
Is there anyway that I can direct Lynx to give up sooner so my script
can proceed to other links quicker? I mean, 30 seconds would be the upper
limit I would wait. :-)
Anyways, my Perl script works wonderfully with Lynx but, unfortunately,
it has *alot* of links to check of which, many of them are dead or
unresponsive. The dead ones are taking up alot of time...
Thanks for any help you can provide.
James
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