Dear Mike,
Certainly you are correct in your thinking that indexing through the
filesystem should ignore query strings like you mention. What version
of ht://Dig are you using?
Thanks,
--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
At 12:11 PM -0800 2/14/01, Michael J.Fiorill wrote:
>Dear Geoff,
>
>I recently encountered a possible quirk with HTdig. We
>have a customer who has pages that use a question
>mark after the link name. The numbers, I am told, are
>for some type of link accounting system.
>
>The problem is that if we try to index the site only using
>the file system (without going through the web server),
>the htdig index utility will look for:
>somefile.html?19344 or whatever random number the
>link has attached to it.
>
>Since a file that is accessed directly off the hard drive
>could never operated as a CGI, the indexer should
>throw away the question mark and everything after it, if
>and only if, it is indexing files through the file system.
>
>I may be missing some quirks that doing things that
>way may introduce. But perhaps you could let me know
>whether or not I have some validity in my thinking.
>
>Thanks for your time!
>Sincerely,
>Mike Fiorill
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