On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 18:27 -0800, Chris Hostetter wrote: > : 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 ...
Yeah, I am starting to understand better the architecture behind solr reading the ml. > 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. Thanks for this clarification, I will incorporate it into the documentation. salu2 > > > > -Hoss >
