[htdig-dev] Possble Bugs, esp with htdig.conf

[BOOTH, N. F. <Nic...@rb...>]

I've noticed the following which may, or may not be "real" bugs when testing
the new Beta version:
 
1] The htdig.conf file seems to be very, very sensitive to whitespace at the
end of lines. In particular, with a multiline attribute as illustrated just
below, if there is white space (tested with [tab]s)  after the \  character,
htdig _and_ htsearch will fail:
 
server_aliases:                 www.cbfm.rbs.co.uk=www.cbfm.rbsgrp.net
<http://www.cbfm.rbs.co.uk=www.cbfm.rbsgrp.net>  \

                                www.cib.rbs.co.uk=www.cib.rbsgrp.net
<http://www.cib.rbs.co.uk=www.cib.rbsgrp.net> 
 
2] I can't seem to get any sensible changes to results with htsearch using
url_seed_score
 
url_seed_score:                 cbfm|fmintranet|cib. *500,+1000 \

 
manufacturing.|retail|technology.|wealthmanagement.|rbs.|group *.1,
 
Even stupidly high factors don't seem to have an effect (like 100,000).
(tried with and without commas and spaces separating values)
 
3] If there is _not_ a return after the last line in the config file then
htsearch causes a cgi error.  Results from apache eror log:
 
Unknown char in line 224: #[Fri Nov 14 23:51:46 2003] [error] [client
147.114.74.200] malformed header from script. Bad header=syntax error:
/var/www/cgi-bin/htsearch32 

 
4] If you search for a phrase and it forms part of a longer string then the
results are not highlighted in the extract displayed.  This is most apparent
when the second word is singular, but it finds a plural result.
 
Search for "animal feedstuff"
finds "animal feedstuff"s   ---  no highlight
finds "animal feedstuff"    --- highlight as expected
 
Hope this makes sense!
 
Lastly, are the cookies.txt mechanism and check_unique_md5  actually known
to work?
 
Running 3.2.0b5 on:  Linux lon3561xus 2.4.9-31smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 06:55:00
EST 2002 i686 unknown
 
It has happily indexed multi server intranet with about <50k pages,
including parseing PDFs and Word docs - but, as ever, seems limited by my
web server responses/network latentcy, so this took over 18 hours.  I'm
really very happy with what I've seen so far - especially the phrase search
which is crucial for me to keep this product in place.
 
Best regards
Nicholas Booth
Royal Bank of Scotland, Corporate Banking
280 Bishopsgate
London
 


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