[htdig] Remote Request?

2001-01-02 Thread Mike Paradis
In my application, I could use some sort of remote search request. In other words, just having the database remote is not good enough. It takes quite a while to actually go through the big database over a network connection of course. If I could just send a small network request and receive the

Re: [htdig] Remote Request?

2001-01-02 Thread Geoff Hutchison
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Mike Paradis wrote: > If I could just send a small network request and receive the results, > that would be much more efficient. I'm not quite sure that I follow you exactly. But I think you're asking for something along the lines of the ExternalTransport code in the 3.2 bran

Re: [htdig] Remote Request?

2001-01-02 Thread Geoff Hutchison
Based on what you say, you'll probably want to have some sort of "wrapper" CGI. This can take the user's query through the search server and then call htsearch on the index servers using something like ssh to execute htsearch remotely. (I would say rsh since more people are familiar with usin