On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > > 2. way to override "no server" problem > > > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. > > Since 3.1.5, if htdig fails to connect to a server, it sets the "dead > server" flag and won't try again to contact that server, giving instead a > bunch of "no server" errors. In most cases, that's the best thing to do, > but a number of users expressed a preference for the old way, or something > more fail-safe like waiting a while and trying that server again later.
Maybe with (yet another new option) max_retries which will count the retries; if it fails (max_retries is full), then the server is presumed dead. But you all know what I mean anyway. > > > 4. a "match all documents" mechanism in htsearch > > > > This IMHO, is no small feat unless you hack htsearch to totally bypass the > > parser and htfuzzy phases for some specific query. (As in, if the query is > > just '*' and nothing else, it will return all documents and then > > restrict, exclude, etc. But something like 'foo and * not bar" is subject > > to the normal parsing.) > > > > Again, if this seems like a reasonable workaround, I can write this. <word> and * == <word> <word> or * == * <word1> and * not <word2> == <word1> not <word2> Can that be parsed easily? --jesse -------------------------------------------------------------------- J. op den Brouw Johanna Westerdijkplein 75 Haagse Hogeschool 2521 EN DEN HAAG Faculty of Engeneering Netherlands Electrical Engeneering +31 70 4458936 -------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------- Linux - because reboots are for hardware changes _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
