Re: Results summary lists incorrect file types

Fred Jensen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.htdig.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On May 6, 2005, at 8:51 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:

> Greg Pedder wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>> One of our clients has found an interesting caveat while using htDig,
>> the answer to which I haven't yet found on the mailing lists, so I'm
>> hoping someone out there may be able to help.
>>
>> Basically, after searching for a particular keyword, the results 
>> summary
>> says that there have been "x results found in the whole site" with the
>> results made up of "x web pages" and "x other files".
>> The problem however, is that for this particular search, all the files
>> returned are htm files. Just wondering why htDig would be reporting 
>> back
>> this way and is there any way to have the results tally up correctly
>> with the files found.
>>
>> Hope someone can shed some light on this.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>>
> What are you expecting htsearch to return? The htdig software is 
> expected to search
> (the html pages on a) web site and build a database that htsearch can 
> scan for text
> provided by the user.
>
> If htsearh is returning names (and contents) of html pages, it sounds 
> like it's doing
> the job it's supposed to do.
>
>

I believe the original poster wants to know why some files are 
identified as 'other' when they should be identified as 'web pages'. I 
have no idea what the answer is though, unless it's differentiating 
between '.html' and '.htm' extensions?

Fred






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