: I know its possible to do via adding sort=xxxx , but the Perl module : (WebService::Solr) doesn't seem to offer the option to pass in this value :(
according to the docs, you can pass any query params you want to the sort method... http://search.cpan.org/~bricas/WebService-Solr-0.11/lib/WebService/Solr.pm#search%28_$query,_\%options_%29 >> All key-value pairs supplied in \%options are serialzied in the request >> URL. -Hoss
