J. op den Brouw (MSQL_User@st.hhs.nl)
Thu, 27 May 1999 18:28:50 +0200 (MET DST)
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Torsten Neuer wrote:
> According to J. op den Brouw:
> >How about automating it? If the have a page URL to the
> >engine start page, you can filter it and reject them
> >if they don't have e.g. /cgi-bin/htsearch or the
> >words parameter or .....
> >If something isn't fishy, you can always check by hand
> >later.....
> >
(snip)
>
> Approving site automatically is problematic. You'll never have a chance
> of doing this with sites that use their own wrapper scripts in order to
> extend the capabilities of ht://Dig if you rely on /cgi-bin/ URLs. Some
> sites also have non-standard CGI directories or are able to execute any
> program with an extension like ".cgi" as a CGI application. You also
> cannot rely on "look'n'feel" of htsearch result pages, since you can post-
> process them or apply different templates to alter formatting or search
> results.
You can always check it by hand if the filer fails to find anything
>
> However, we could extend the submission form to require:
> - URL with search engine form (so that someone does not have to look
> for it on the whole site; for some sites such a form might only be
> available in places where you really need such a tool, e.g. cata-
> logues).
> - Version of ht://Dig used on this site
> - Valid E-Mail address of site administrator
> - Phone/Fax number of site administrator
> - wrapper used (none,CGI,PHP,ASP...)
A lot of people don't want to be that public.
>
> This may draw off some of the spammers - especially if we go into details
> of the configuration (the latter might be quite interesting for use in
> statistics, too).
I already have a survey on htdig: http://www.st.hhs.nl/htdig
(needs some updating now). You can add your site if you want.
>
> I'd also suggest to make a "trusted" form for URL submissions.
> Maybe for ISPs or larger organizations who might have multiple
> sites up and running where ht://Dig is used.
>
>
> regards,
> Torsten
>
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