[htdig] max_hop_count vs. -v output

[Patrick Robinson]

[htdig-3.1.5 on Solaris 2.6]

I'm trying to reconcile the setting of the max_hop_count config attribute
with the output I see when I run htdig with the -v option. Specifically,
in the verbose output, I'm *not* seeing the "hop count" (the 3rd number)
increment as htdig follows most of the links; it just remains at "1".

This is a dynamically generated site, and all the URLs are of the form:
/view.cfm?webname=somename&section=foo&id=bar

There are lots of links on each page, and most of them look like the
URL above.  The "start_url" for the site is actually on a different
web server from the site itself, and has a URL like this:

http://www.ext.vt.edu/offices/

Most of the links on that page look like:
http://offices.ext.vt.edu/somecounty/

which will result in the browser being redirected to:
http://offices.ext.vt.edu/view.cfm?webname=somecounty

Again, for the most part, the links on this page will look like:
http://offices.ext.vt.edu/view.cfm?webname=somecounty&section=foo&bar=baz

Since the hop count is not incrementing, I'm unable to restrict the number
of hops with max_hop_count.

So I guess I'm mostly just curious... is this the way hops are supposed to
be calculated?  I would have thought that following a link would increment
the hop count, even if the URL it was following differs only by the value
of some query string parameter.

-- 
Patrick Robinson
AHNR Info Technology, Virginia Tech
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