Steer clear of Harvest, it is overblown, under documented, and riddled with
bugs.
SWISH is OK, we provide it as an alternative to ht://Dig, but we only use it
to index local pages, not web sites.
Before dropping ht://Dig, which is an excellent product, try using it in
conjuction with a proxy server if you can,
it just might make all the difference with awkward remote servers. See the
http_proxy attribute in the config. file.
--
David Adams
Computing Services
Southampton University
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adolfo Santiago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 1:23 AM
Subject: [htdig] Alternatives to htdig?
> I know this is heresy what I'm about to ask, but I don't see myself having
> much choice.
>
> What other free or close to free search engines are out there that provide
> functionality similar to that of htdig under Linux?
>
> I've been trying to get htdig to work for two weeks now, working on it for
> several hours each night, without much to show in results. The basic
> problem is that htdig gets hung up randomly on connections to the one and
> only server I'm trying to index. In dozens of tries, it has never
> successfully completed.
>
> I don't blame htdig for the problem (although it could be the reason).
But
> I got to get something working soon and can't spend much more time on
this.
>
> So, any alternatives?
>
>
> Adolfo "Chago" Santiago
>
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> denied."
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