On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Subramanian Radhakrishnan wrote:
when i use post method, i am not getting any search results. But
when i use get method, I am getting search results..
It is much harder to support post than it is to support get. Using get,
the query string is passed as environment variables, which makes reading
them a simple matter of doing a getenv().
Using post, they are passed as an encoded string on stdin, and the
length passed in the Content-length header. Not all browsers pass the
correct content-length however, and sometimes they do not account for
endline characters (\n instead of \r\n).
The easiest way to do this would be to use cgilib, but as of now namazu
does not use cgilib.
If you really want to try your hand at it, have a look at src/cgi.c, in
the function get_query_string (a grep for QUERY_STRING would have shown
you).
You'll have to change the getenv call to something that reads the post
info.
An alternative is something that I've done at
http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/search/linuxers/
and
http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/search/life/
The index is actually passed as the PATH_INFO variable. In the above
url, linuxers and life are the indexes, but isn't apparent to users of
the search.
The changes were quite easy to do, and I can post a patch (on 2.0.7) if
you want.
Philip
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