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
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