--- trunk/README 2003/03/16 22:08:17 19 +++ trunk/README 2003/03/18 19:08:56 20 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -This project is side-effect of webpac indexer -- I learned so much about -perl and swish-e during working on webpac so I decided to make smaller +This project is side-effect of WebPac indexer -- I learned so much about +perl and swish-e during working on WebPac so I decided to make smaller cgi interface to swish for general purpose web crawling and searching. @@ -11,4 +11,19 @@ Then, rot13.cgi will use rot13.xml file as configuration. + +This perl cgi font-end has following interesting features: +1. old (easy to understand :-) swish spider modified to support "no parent" + URL (url above which it will stop spidering -- useful if you want to + spider just your personal pages under some URL) +2. separate xml configuration file for one index (all uses same cgi script) +3. no need to design html pages (but, that limits you to one rather ugly + design with some fill-in words -- someone could change that to use + templates as I will probably in future) +4. support for searching using Lingua::Spelling::Alternative module which + uses ispell affix or findaffix data to create variations of entered words +5. support for converting swish UTF-8 output to some other encoding on web + using iconv. + + Dobrica Pavlinusic 2003-03-16