Hello,
I downloaded Webinator a few days ago and have been testing it since
then. I think it's great value for the asking
but... I 'm afraid I'll have to give up using it unless I find a way to perform two
tasks:
1. Indexing virtual hosts. As it appears to me, the gw/webinator
client does not send the "Host:" HTTP header to the site specified
as its argument. As a result, it is not served the correct set of
pages by a server using the new, non-IP-intensive method of
configuring virtual hosts. In my configuration, the maximum
results I can get is to connect to the main server (say,
http://www.foo.bar/) and use e.g. the option -j/xyz/ (path of the
virtual host document tree). This, however, results in old
addresses (http://www.foo.bar/xyz/.*) being presented to anyone
who queries the index, so that the advantages of having a virtual
host are lost after search results appear - not even the new
browsers are given the desired virtual address, e.g.
http://www.xyz.bar/.
Using Redirects on server-side does not help, since
http://www.xyz.com/ will be treated as another site and thus all I
can get from it is the first page linked from www.foo.bar (I mean a
directive like "Redirect /xyz/ http://www.xyz.bar/").
2. A way to query pages in an encoding different from the standard, I
mean the "charset" parameter on the "Content-type" header. Most of
the pages I would index are in ISO-8859-2 or the East/Central
European character set. They are indexed all right, because viewing
the pages through Webinator, I can see all the characters displayed
correctly. It's just that I'm not able to enter an ISO-8859-2
character in the form and get results for the string. Or is it a
browser issue? Is the content of a POST operation url-encoded or
something before it's sent to the server? My guess is that it
shouldn't be.
If any subscriber of this list could help me to solve the problems,
I'd be very grateful. I use HP 9000 K200 machine (HP PARISC + HP.UX
10.01, if I remember well), with Apache 1.1.1.
Thank you,
--
Grzesiek Staniak
gstaniak@golem.umcs.lublin.pl - http://www.lublin.pl/~gstaniak/
I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar.