On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Les wrote:
> When I use REFALIAS to aggregate referals from search sites for the referer
> report, the search words from those sites are not available in the search
> reports.
>
You're right. There are various infelicities with search arguments. At least
in this version I've documented them better -- see docs/args.html
> Is there something I can do about this, or should I make separate reports?
>
Yes, there is. A more cunning use of FILEALIAS will get round it. For
example,
FILEALIAS /*/script.pl?* /cgi-bin/script.pl?$2
will map /my/dir/script.pl?a=1 to /cgi-bin/script.pl?a=1. I shall add this
example to args.hml.
> The search reports are an excellent development. How do they pick out the
> search words from the referring url in the logfile?
>
Each search engine has its own argument name for the request, which is given
by a SEARCHENGINE command in analog.cfg. From there, it's just a matter of
stripping out punctuation and white space. If you know C, the precise code
is in do_aliasN() in alias.c and nnextname() in tree.c.
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