: Imaging I have a form like
: <form action="select/" method="get">
...
: <input type="text" name="startDate"/>
..
: <input type="text" name="endDate"/>
: Using the StandardRequestHandler without prior processing would result
: that "startDate" and "endDate" would be ignored since they are not
: within the query string and are not solr standard param that got
: processed.
Typically it's not recommended do have your front end users/clients
hitting Solr directly sa part of an HTML form submit ... the more
conventional way to think of it is that Solr is a backend service, which
your applicationn can talk to over HTTP -- if you were dealing with a
database, you wouldn't expect that you could generate an HTML form for
your clients and then have them submit that form in some way that resulted
in their browser using JDBC (or ODBC) to communicate directly with your
database, their client would communicate with your App, which would
validate their input, impose some security checks on the input, and then
execute the underlying query to your database -- working wtih Solr should
be very similar, it just so happens thta instead of using JDBC or some
other binary protocol, Solr uses HTTP, and you *can* talk to it directly
from a web browser, but that's relaly more of a debugging feature then
anything else.
-Hoss
