According to Gary Halpin:
> Just to follow-up, I installed the snapshot as
> recommended but my problem didn't go away until i
> removed the "local_urls_only: true" that i'd added to
> htdig.conf, so that was probably the problem.
Oh, absolutely. local_urls can intercept the URLs for any type of
handler, including file://, and not just http://. So, if you set
local_urls_only, you'd better make sure you've set local_urls correctly,
and that's how you want things handled.
There's actually a discrepancy between how local_urls_only is handled
in 3.2.* and 3.1.5. In 3.1.5, it's scope is limited to URLs that
actually can be mapped by local_urls (or local_user_urls), but in 3.2,
it applies to all URLs. I think this is undesirable because it leads to
the sort of problem you encountered. 3.1.5's approach is less likely
to be a problem like this, but the downside of it is that URLs that
don't fit in local_urls will cause a fallback to the http transport,
even if local_urls_only is set. Either approach has its own potential
for confusion -- the question is which is worse?
Incidentally, I found a serious bug in the file:// handler last week.
It drops all newline characters from the documents it reads. This is fixed
in last Sunday's snapshot, htdig-3.2.0b4-071501.tar.gz.
> Btw, searching the ht://Dig archives hasn't worked for
> me at geocrawler.com: it never finds anything.
> Searching at mail-archive.com, works fine, otoh.
Yes, the GeoCrawler search seems to be DOA. E.g.:
"There were no matches for htdig found on the website." Yeah, right!
Unfortunately, our attempts to index the GeoCrawler archives with htdig have
also failed completely, so there seems to be no way of searching the new
mailing lists except by using mail-archive.com. At least mail-archive.com
uses a decent search engine! :-) Right now, searches on www.htdig.org only
give results from the old archives and the docs.
Geoff, any possibility of finding a solution to this?
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