According to Ted Stresen-Reuter: > Well, I'm going to take a crack at it, but here's how I suspect Guilles > would answer... > > Rundig should index the sites as it normally does. Use the url_rewrite > options for htsearch to append arguments to urls only when users are > conducting the search.
Well, I'm not sure who Guilles is, but if you mean me, I'd prefer not to have words put into my mouth. If you want to know how I'd answer, bear these points in mind. 1) Winfried mentioned not once, but twice, that he wants the parameters added to the URLs while indexing, not searching. I'd tend to take that at face value unless I had compelling reasons to question that, which I don't. 2) When I don't have exact recall of a particular attribute name, or the set of programs that use that attribute, I tend to verify my assumptions by checking attrs.html and/or FAQ.html (and sometimes the source code) for confirmation/correction before I post a reply, and include where possible a reference to the best source(s) of information. In this case, attrs.html makes it clear that (for version 3.1.6) url_rewrite_rules is used by htdig (at indexing time) and search_rewrite_rules is used by htsearch (at search time). As Winfried stated a preference for the former, I'd refer to http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#url_rewrite_rules as the most likely solution to the problem. I'd normally leave it at that, unless I had reason to think there are likely problems with the proposed solution, in which case I might try to anticipate these and give further information, explanations or workarounds. In this case, though, as I can't anticipate what problems there might be with this, I would tend to wait until Winfried reads up on and tries this attribute, and I'd expect to see a follow-up post if there were problems with the solution. > It's not exactly what you're looking for, but without knowing more about why > you need to append args during the dig, it's hard to come up with > alternatives. Were it not for the fact that documented alternatives do exist in this case, I would tend to agree with this logic. When I can't find anything in the documentation that solves the problem directly, and after wracking my brain a bit to think of some clever but non-obvious application of some existing feature to solve the problem, I would usually propose something that's not quite what was asked for, in the hopes of prompting the person to search for alternative solutions, or I'd ask for more information about why the person thinks there's only one right way to tackle the problem. That, in a nutshell, is how I suspect I would answer. > Other than that, I have no idea how to append arguments during the dig. > > Good luck! > > Ted > > >From: "Thieme, Winfried" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: 'Ted Stresen-Reuter' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: AW: [htdig] add parameter to the url while indexing > >Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:41:16 +0200 > > > >Hello Ted! > > > >I don't need to add parameters while searching the database > >but while running htdig (indexing the website). Do you have > >any idea? > > > >Winfried > > > > > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > > > Von: Ted Stresen-Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... > > > Winifred: > > > > > > I found myself having to add and strip url arguments to and > > > from the query > > > string too and have an example of how to do it using PHP here: > > > http://dev.susansexton.com/htdig/view.php?file=results-object.php > > > > > > You'll see the custom code near the top of the code. For a complete > > > description of how we integrated php with mysql you can check out > > > http://dev.susansexton.com/htdig/ > > > > > > Ted Stresen-Reuter > > > > > > > > > >From: "Thieme, Winfried" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > > > >Is there any way to automatically add an url parameter to > > > every url the > > > >spider > > > >is indexing? > > > > > > > >e.g. calling the url "a/b/c.jsp" with "a/b/c.jsp?param=value" > > > > > > > >Winfried -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
