Sorry about that, "download" was a poor word choice.
By download, I meant that after the applet opens an input stream to the
URL, it will need to read from the stream to get all the index data from
the web server to the user's machine so the applet can perform the
search. Whether the index files a
I'm not sure about Perl or PHP--perhaps there are some ports of Lucene
that'll let you do that. But the most straightforward way is to just
write a simple Java web application with a servlet that uses an
IndexSearcher to execute a form-entered query and have it return
results.
It seems like you m