> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Douglas Kline wrote: > > > Is there a way to specify these attributes for a search other than using a > > different htdig.conf file for htsearch from the one used for htdig and > > specifying the prefix or substring attributes in that file? Can such an > > attribute be applied as an option to the htsearch command called as a cgi > > operation or from the Web page calling htsearch? TIA. > > By default htsearch allows only a limited number of attributes to be > passed in from the search form. To do otherwise would remove a > significant level of control from the maintainer and could in fact be > rather dangerous. Instead, htsearch forces the maintainer to specify > those attributes which they choose to have htsearch act upon. This is > handled through the allow_in_form attribute, which needs to be placed > in your configuration file. Take a look at the following. > > http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#allow_in_form > > The above link even provides an example of setting up search_algorithm > options.
I've added the line allow_in_form: search_algorithm to the conf file and the clause <SELECT NAME="search_algorithm"> <OPTION VALUE="exact:1 synonyms:0.5 endings:0.1" SELECTED>words <OPTION VALUE="substring:0.5">strings </SELECT> to the search form file. I get the option to use either words or strings when the search page is brought up and it seems to work. However, after I've run a search and now the form brought up by the htsearch executable is the page, I don't get the choice any more and even if I ran a strings search the first time further searches only find whole words, i.e. I can run a successful strings search from the search page and get results and then come up empty-handed repeating the search for the same string. What could be wrong? Are these values not passed onto htsearch for re-use? Can they be? Also, I don't understand the danger of putting this option at the user's disposition (assuming that it can be). What could an unscrupulous or well-intentioned, mistaken user do that would be harmful? TIA. Douglas ======== Douglas Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
