RE: [htdig] Meta tag usage

[<Mic...@ss...>]

Thanks for your initial response. I have tried running htdig with -vvvv
(again) as you suggest.
An extract of the result is below. Can anyone confirm for me what it is
saying.
My specific problem is trying to return results based on the 'postcode'
written into the meta tag.
If you go to www.edinburgh.gov.uk, choose search from the top menu and enter
'postcode' you will not get back any results _FOR which the only match is
from the META tag_  (You will get lots of results where postcode appears in
the body.)
Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided,
Mike

pick: www.edinburgh.gov.uk, # servers = 1
28:28:2:http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Local_Organisat
ions/local_Action_Group.html: Retrieval command for
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Local_Organisations/loc
al_Action_Group.html: GET
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Local_Organisations/loc
al_Action_Group.html HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: htdig/3.1.2 ('')
Referer:
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Local_Organisations/loc
al_A.html
Host: www.edinburgh.gov.uk

Header line: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Header line: Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 09:40:15 GMT
Header line: Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Win32)
Header line: Last-Modified: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:32:57 GMT
Translated Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:32:57 GMT to 05 Nov 2001  (101)
And converted to Mon, 05 Nov 2001
Header line: ETag: "0-fe1-3be6cd49"
Header line: Accept-Ranges: bytes
Header line: Content-Length: 4065
Header line: Connection: close
Header line: Content-Type: text/html
Header line:
returnStatus = 0
Read 4065 from document
Read a total of 4065 bytes
Tag: HTML>, matched -1
Tag: HEAD>, matched -1
Tag: META name='htdig-keywords' content='EH7 postcode 5QY postcode EH75QY
postcode disabled community care disability mentally handicapped Learning
disabilities PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Learning disabilities'>, matched 20
Tag: TITLE>, matched 0


According to Mic...@ss...:
> Can anyone tell me how HtDig is supposed to use the keywords that it finds
> in the Meta tags of a document.
> I was under the impression that HtSearch would return a document even if
the
> only match for the search term was found in a Meta tag ie not in the body
> text, but on our site it doesn't seem to be doing this. Have I got the
> config wrong, or have I misunderstood how meta tags work.

The accepted forms of meta keywords tags that htdig recongizes are:

  <meta keywords="words">
  <meta htdig-keywords="words">
  <meta name="keywords" content="words">
  <meta name="htdig-keywords" content="words">

The last two forms are controlled by the keywords_meta_tag_names
attribute, so any names listed there are allowed in this way.  The default
ones are keywords and htdig-keywords.  The first two forms above are
not configurable.

As long as your documents are using one of these forms of the tag, and
you haven't set max_keywords to 0, keywords should behave as you expect.
If they don't, try running htdig with at least four -v options to see
what words are being indexed for a given document.

Meta description tags are also indexed, but only to the maximum length
allowed by max_meta_description_length (512 by default).

-- 
Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:
http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Phone:  (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)   Fax:    (204)789-3930


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