Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx32 blows up when reading >64k

[Wayne Buttles]

On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Mike Shore wrote:

> I am running Lynx32 2.7ac-0.6 in a DOS window under WinNT 4.0. When typing
> the following command line:
> 
> lynx -term=ascii www.businesswire.com/headlines.shtml -dump
> 
> I get an error message
> 
> HTML: ****** Maximum nesting of 800 tags exceeded!
>
> It only happens some of the time, and I am guessing that it happens when
> Lynx tries to read in a page larger than 64k?

Nope.  It is a hard limit in lynx that it fail when 800 tags have been
opened without being closed.  I never thought I would see a site that did
it on purpose!  They have three <A NAME> tags for every </A> and it builds
up over ~90k.  All standard lynx compiles have this limit.

I suppose we could up the limit, but how high?

Wayne

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