On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:14:40PM +0000, jrandom wrote: > > Instead of linking directly to pages, how about creating a standard XML > > data format for index data, then having a search box (or a few) on the > > front page that would request TFE's or TFEE's XML index file, query that > > file, and return matching results > > IIRC the XML tfee exports contains a few keywords, and TFEE, YoYo, THI, > and TII (among others) all include flinks XML, though I'm not sure if > that has all the content you'd want to search against (it has name, > description, and notes, but not full content). flinks itself has a > search function against that data, and you can "subscribe" to index pages, > having it reget the bookmarks daily. > > Toad and Ian have rightly said flinks or something of its ilk shouldn't > be distro'ed with fred, and I completely agree. A freenet search engine > is a really awesome idea and something like McNab's reuse of ht://dig > sounds like a great way to deal with it, but there too I say thats an > app, not core to fred.
An fproxy extension that implements an anonymous search client given one or more published indexes would be a great inclusion for Fred. It would however be rather slow. > > "freenet" would benefit from some search functionality, but it can be > done at the application level, and shouldn't be part of the core fred > distro. Maybe someone can crawl with ht://dig and publish the > DB nightly/weekly/whatever, and package up a client side that polls for > the latest DB and lets people search, with results pointing at fproxy? > (aka exactly what McNab suggests) > > -jrandom > > !+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+ > CryptoMail provides free end-to-end message encryption. > http://www.cryptomail.org/ Ensure your right to privacy. > Traditional email messages are not secure. They are sent as > clear-text and thus are readable by anyone with the motivation > to acquire a copy. > !+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+!+ > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
