Fantastic. I might have to start browsing the CVS branch now.
Is there a way to look at a change log? Also, is there a TODO list
somewhere? I have one other feature request and I would like to see if it is
already in the works...
Everyone that has seen the demo that installed has been extremely impressed
by the speed and features.
Thanks,
Brett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kir Kolyshkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [aseek-users] Date modified times
> Oh, thank you, so I finally found what you need - knowing the last
modified
> date, for printing it in results, for sorting results by date, for
limiting
> results to given dates. Am I right?
>
> Hmm...this would be not a five-minutes hack to do it...we store
Last-Modified
> header in SQL DB and later send it back...so we can't store "date" meta
there.
> But we can add one extra field into SQL DB, for just storing "date" meta.
>
> Later, in a process of parsing delta files, ranks calculation and so
(which
> is done before index finishes, or explicitly by running index -D),
> Last-Modified fields gets read from SQL DB and stored into binary file
> named "lastmod", format of the file is described in lastmod.h (or .cpp)
>
> Ok, I will include it in 1.1-devel TODO, we can't do it in 1.0 because
this
> needs database changes.
>
>
> Brett Pappas wrote:
> >
> > Kir,
> > see my notes below:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kir Kolyshkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [aseek-users] Date modified times
> > >
> > > Can you provide me with more details:
> > >
> > > 1. Should date meta tag have a higher priority than Last-Modified, or
> > > be taken into account only if there is no Last-Modified?
> >
> > I feel the best apporach would be to use it as a higher priority over
> > Last-Modiifed since if someone took the time to inlcude it in their
document
> > then they must prefer it to the lastmod time. Also it could be a config
> > option that is turned off by default...
> >
> > >
> > > 2. Is that a standard of any kind, or just ht://Dig extension? If it's
> > > not a standard, please describe a way how you use it.
> >
> > Yes it is an accepted standard for a few search engines out there. In
fact
> > htdig will either use "date" or "htdig-date" as the meta name.
> >
> > > 3. Does this prevents re-loading the whole document from the network,
> > > or it just prevents from document parsing and storing in DB?
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you talking about the meta tag or
the
> > server parsed file? The meta tag is just there for informational
purposes
> > similar to a meta description tag etc..
> >
> > The server parsing things is common to all web servers like netscape and
> > apache in the fact that if the file is parsed on the server (like ssi's,
> > php, etc..) then the server never gives you a proper last-modified date
(it
> > will usually just say unknown in netscape, I think IE will just give
today's
> > date).
> >
> > >
> > > 4. What is date format?
> >
> > An example would be:
> >
> > <meta name="date" content="2001-01-31">
> >
> > So in other words "Y-m-d" with leading zeros for the day and month
fields.
> >
> > >
> > > BTW please note that we also honour/set ETag/If-None-Match pair of
> > headers,
> > > and we also honour Expires: header, if it is set to a date later than
> > > now + Period from aspseek.conf (See RFC 2616).
> > >
> >
> > I don't really think this relates to what I am needing to do since this
is
> > more about expriring content from pages where as all I am wanting to do
is
> > determine when the document was created/modified last.
> >
> > Thanks for your help, I look forward to anything you can do. I wish I
knew
> > more C so I could help out. My feeling is that if you are already
> > interpreting other meta tags such as description, content and robot -
then
> > it would be pretty straight forward to add this feature but then again I
> > have no idea where you are storing the lastmod dates for each url so
maybe I
> > am wrong ;-)
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Brett
> >
> > > Maybe this will be of any help to you?
> > >
> > > -- |< [] [] |_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kir.sever.net ICQ
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> > > "Ok, the guy who made the netfilter Makefile was probably on some
> > interesting
> > > and probably illegal drugs when we wrote it." -- Linus Torvalds.
> > >
>
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