How does the ncsa httpd work? Is this documented?
> is to go ``this server doesn't allow searches'' whenever it receives a
> ?word+word style URL. In order to have your search activated, the
> server would need to call the shell script with the search keywords as
> arguments.
>
> What I did to get around it, was write my cover-page *and* the search
> module as a shell script which was then called by inetd. Instead of
> making a link to http://machine:80/document, I made a link to
> http://machine:9080/document (9080 being the port in inetd.conf).
>
> DISCUSSION
> ----------
>
> This is an ugly hack! What I would much rather prefer to see is
> <ISINDEX HREF=http://machine:9080/document>
> where the URL after HREF= is the bit to append the ?word+word to.
>
> Also, a version of the CERN server that can be configured (in the
> httpd.conf script) to define allowable suffixes for the search
> programs, eg
> search .p
> search .sh
>
> Then, when the server gets a request for URL?word+word+word, it splits
> up the words, and calls
> URL.p word word word
> or
> URL.sh word word word
>
> Nat
>
Thank you.
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