In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Eric Bear Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am trying to use the htdig search facility on a particular site to > find occurrences of two words, 'scope' and 'posting' ... the damned > thing insists on trying all sorts of permutations of those words; I > tried using double quotes and it did this: > > '(scope or scoped or scoping or scopes) and and and (posting or > post or posted or postings or poster or posts or posters)' > > and and and ??? Cripes. > > How the hell can I get it to only do exactly the words I want?
You hack the page to include <INPUT type="hidden" name="search_algorithm" value="exact"> or, if it uses method="GET", append to the query string &search_algorithm=exact Be calm. It's a site-maintainer problem, not an HtDig issue. You could gently ask the site maintainer to include options, and that they should add a note that users can still access permutations by entering (e.g.) scope* assuming prefix_match_character: * Mike ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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
