I disagree with this. I think htdig is making a safe assumption in
treating the query strings as significant. For all it knows, they may
very well be, so it shouldn't strip them off unless explicitly told to
do so by some other option/attribute. That's really a peripheral issue
to the handling of local_urls, though, because there are cases where
users wanted query string stripping even for HTTP-based digging. I think
Andy Armstrong's url_rewrite_rules patch,
ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.5/htdig-3.1.5.aarmstrong.tar.gz
would add the capability to do this and more.
According to Geoff Hutchison:
> 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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