According to Lachlan Andrew: > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:19:11PM -0400, Geoff Hutchison wrote: > > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Lachlan Andrew wrote: > > > KDE help used to use ht://Dig to provide a search capability. > > > They changed the format of their files from HTML to docbook (XML). > > > For some reason, ht://Dig refuses to call the parser that one of > > > the KDE developers wrote. The response was that it was not a bug, > > > but a calculated feature, because ht://Dig didn't know that no server > > > parsing was necessary. > > > > For 3.2, the best approach is to either: > > a) Index using file:// URLs, which should use the appropriate mime.types > > file: <http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/attrs.html#mime_types> > > b) Code the RetrieveLocal method to produce temporary file:// URLs that > > are retrieved using the htnet/HtFile methods. (which again should use the > > appropriate mime.types file) > > I don't understand why there needs to be a temporary file:// URL. > I've attached a patch (against the latest beta, b3) in which > RetrieveLocal explicitly calls the method from HtFile which checks > the MIME type. > > Please let me know if this patch is unsuitable, and if so how I can > fix it. If it is OK, I'll go ahead and implement bad_local_ext etc.
I think your approach is a simple and elegant solution to this problem. I'd recommend two changes: 1) Grab the most recent 3.2.0b4 snapshot from http://www.htdig.org/files/snapshots/ and adapt your code to that version. Some of the mime.types handling code in HtFile::Request() has changed subtly between 3.2.0b3 and now, so it would be better to work with the current code base. Also, your patch to htsearch/Display.cc isn't needed with 3.2.0b4. 2) The HtFile::Request() and Document::RetrieveLocal() methods both have some hardcoded extensions, which should probably be kept in the new HtFile::Ext2Mime() method. HtFile::Request() currently falls back on these when it can't open mime.types. Thanks! -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
