httpindex(1) httpindex(1)
NAME
httpindex - HTTP front-end for SWISH++ indexer
SYNOPSIS
wget [ options ] URL... 2>&1 | httpindex [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
httpindex is a front-end for index++(1) to index files copied from
remote servers using wget(1). The files (in a copy of the remote
directory structure) can be kept, deleted, or replaced with their
descriptions after indexing.
OPTIONS
wget Options
The wget(1) options that are required are: -A, -nv, -r, and -x; the
ones that are highly recommended are: -l, -nh, -t, and -w. (See the
EXAMPLE.)
httpindex Options
httpindex accepts the same short options as index++(1) except for -H,
-I, -l, -r, -S, and -V.
The following options are unique to httpindex:
-d Replace the text of local copies of retrieved files with their
descriptions after they have been indexed. This is useful to
display file descriptions in search results without having to
have complete copies of the remote files thus saving filesystem
space. (See the extract_description() function in WWW(3) for
details about how descriptions are extracted.)
-D Delete the local copies of retrieved files after they have been
indexed. This prevents your local filesystem from filling up
with copies of remote files.
EXAMPLE
To index all HTML and text files on a remote web server keeping
descriptions locally:
wget -A html,txt -linf -t2 -rxnv -nh -w2 http://www.foo.com 2>&1 |
httpindex -d -e’html:*.html,text:*.txt’
Note that you need to redirect wget(1)’s output from standard error to
standard output in order to pipe it to httpindex.
EXIT STATUS
Exits with a value of zero only if indexing completed sucessfully; non-
zero otherwise.
CAVEATS
In addition to those for index++(1), httpindex does not correctly
handle the use of multiple -e, -E, -m, or -M options (because the Perl
script uses the standard GetOpt::Std package for processing command-
line options that doesn’t). The last of any of those options ‘‘wins.’’
The work-around is to use multiple values for those options seperated
by commas to a single one of those options. For example, if you want
to do:
httpindex -e’html:*.html’ -e’text:*.txt’
do this instead:
httpindex -e’html:*.html,text:*.txt’
SEE ALSO
index++(1), wget(1), WWW(3)
AUTHOR
Paul J. Lucas <pauljlucas@mac.com>
SWISH++ August 2, 2005 httpindex(1)