On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, John Grohol PsyD wrote:
>
> I am moving from a long-time relationship with Excite for
> Web Servers (EWS) to Htdig, after upgrading our OS and
> hardware. Since we have been online for 3 years, we've
> encouraged people to include a search engine interface
> on their Web page which calls the EWS script from our server.
> Naturally, the form is configured for EWS, not htsearch.
Done this on my site too.
> So I've written a wrapper script for htsearch which will
> parse the EWS form and send stuff htsearch likes to see.
> The problem is the wrapper works fine from the command
> line, but not when called as a CGI from the Web.
> I assume that, since the htdig config file can't be
> named in the form, I need to define the file somehow as an
Huh?? There is (normally) a hidden field "config" that
gets the name of the config file. If you mean that your
form doesn't have a hidden config field, read the next comment.
> environmental variable in the perl wrapper script?
> I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with
> ensuring htsearch knows where the htdig.conf file is...
> and it doesn't right now.
What you need to do, is to reassemble the QUERY_STRING
environment variable, and call (exec) the real htsearch
binary.
In the QUERY_STRING you need to set all the parameters
htsearch would normaly get.
> I haven't been able to find any documentation surrounding
> calling htsearch from the command line and would appreciate
> any pointers or suggestions on how to get this wrapper to
> work. I'd be happy to share it with others who may also
> be upgrading from EWS to htsearch and want to make the old
> search form still work...
I have a script that I can send you (allthough it is not
written to work with CGI.pm but with cgi-lib.pl).
--jesse
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