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[Rusty Nejdl]

I found that after upgrading to htdig-3.2.0.b5 on
FreeBSD-5.2, I was unable to have it run. I'm not sure
if this is something specific to my system or not, but
I found in a posting in 2002 that commenting out this
line in htdig.conf solved my problem:

#Only index local docs
#local_urls_only: true

[Gilles Detillieux]

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This is a packagining issue over which we have no control.
The ht://Dig software isn't distributed with this option
turned on in its installed htdig.conf file. Some
distributions like Mandrake and FreeBSD choose to turn it on
in the config files they package, for reasons which escape
me. Please take it up with the packager(s).

[Rusty Nejdl]

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Well, actually, this was a configuration that I had created
and been running for some time and not the one that came
with FreeBSD. This configuration worked fine until my
latest upgrade of htdig. I figureed that I would document
this for others to see, and let you know that I had run into
it. I'm fine with this issue being closed.

[Gilles Detillieux]

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Ah, OK. There is a difference in the way local_urls_only was
implemented in 3.2 vs 3.1.6, which would account for the change
in behaviour you noted. It has been discussed previously, and we
never did resolve which of the two approaches was the one we
should stick with. I've reopened this bug report, pending resolution
of this discrepancy.

The difference is that in 3.2, local_urls_only is applied globally, so
that only URLs that match local_urls or local_user_urls AND that
can actually be accessed locally, are actually fetched. In 3.1.6, the
local_urls_only attribute applies only to URLs that match local_urls
or local_user_urls, so those that don't will be fetched via HTTP.