Hi there you all!

There's a great place in Finland called Haku.net (Seek.net in English), which is also a link indexer like Links. It allows webmasters to receive the information if their links in their in-box with a very easy way: You just fill in a form, which asks for your email and the information is sent to the input email. Would this be possible with Links 1.1 or could it be installed to the upcoming Links 2?

The "Haku.net" also allows its users to seek information in a quity interesting way. The address of the indexer is "http://haku.net". When a user writes, for example "http://haku.net/Alex", in his browsers location, the script will automatically search the keyword "Alex" from its database. This would be quite cool with Links too, wouldn't it? =)

In a way yes it would be cool, but then it wouldnt, here's what it sounds like to me, there using Apache web server, in there .htaccess they put somthing like ErrorDocument 404 /index.cgi?what-ever-is-missing, this causes the server to go to index.cgi, then that cgi program searches the for the missing file(or keyword) But what if they really had an error 404? For instance I went to your page clicked on a link that was suposed to take me to say add a resource(add.cgi) and you didnt upload that yet or it wasnt there, instead of me going there I would be searching for the keyword add.cgi, it would be great, and it can already be done now, but the script woul haft to know what was a keyword and what was a file of yours,
Thanks
Joey

Or they are using the mod_rewrite with Apache and just rewriting the URL's. Again it's kind of interesting, but too system specific to be included..

Cheers,

Alex

IF you want to do something like that search I made a little mod. Goto http://xfilenet.hypermart.net/search-mod.html

or try http://xfilenet.hypermart.net/keyword
Note: Links is for the show the x-file. =)

Oh, and it shows File Not Found When you enter a url that does not have the keyword "search" in it. I.E: youdomain.com/search/keyword would produce a search with out Error 404 - File Not Found at the top where as youdomain.com/keyword would say Error 404 - File Not Found.

[This message has been edited by Onasc (edited January 08, 1999).]