I've noticed the
following which may, or may not be "real" bugs when testing the new Beta
version:
1] The htdig.conf
file seems to be very, very sensitive to whitespace at the end of lines. In particular, with a multiline attribute as illustrated just below, if there is
white space (tested with [tab]s) after the \ character,
htdig _and_ htsearch will fail:
server_aliases:
www.cbfm.rbs.co.uk=www.cbfm.rbsgrp.net
\
www.cib.rbs.co.uk=www.cib.rbsgrp.net
www.cib.rbs.co.uk=www.cib.rbsgrp.net
2] I can't seem to
get any sensible changes to results with htsearch using
url_seed_score
url_seed_score:
cbfm|fmintranet|cib. *500,+1000
\
manufacturing.|retail|technology.|wealthmanagement.|rbs.|group *.1,
manufacturing.|retail|technology.|wealthmanagement.|rbs.|group *.1,
Even stupidly high
factors don't seem to have an effect (like 100,000). (tried with and without commas and spaces separating values)
3] If there is _not_
a return after the last line in the config file then htsearch causes a cgi error. Results from apache eror log:
Unknown char in line
224: #[Fri Nov 14 23:51:46 2003] [error] [client 147.114.74.200] malformed header from script. Bad header=syntax error: /var/www/cgi-bin/htsearch32
4] If you search for
a phrase and it forms part of a longer string then the results are not
highlighted in the extract displayed. This is most apparent when the second word is singular, but it finds a plural result.
Search for "animal
feedstuff"
finds "animal
feedstuff"s --- no highlight
finds "animal
feedstuff" --- highlight as expected
Hope this makes
sense!
Lastly, are the
cookies.txt mechanism and check_unique_md5 actually known to
work?
Running 3.2.0b5 on:
Linux lon3561xus 2.4.9-31smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 06:55:00 EST 2002 i686 unknown
It has happily
indexed multi server intranet with about <50k pages, including parseing PDFs and
Word docs - but, as ever, seems limited by my
web server responses/network latentcy, so this took over 18
hours. I'm really very happy with what I've seen so far - especially the
phrase search which is crucial for me to keep this product in
place.
Best
regards
Nicholas Booth
Royal Bank of
Scotland, Corporate Banking
280
Bishopsgate
London
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