Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] symlink bug
From: Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 06:58:27 PDT
At 9:45 PM -0400 7/27/00, jazoff@toddent.com wrote:
>I think I found a bug in which a file is linked to ./ htdig will
>continue forever.....
>I had told it to index a backup cd of my old linux filesystem. When I
>checked in on it it was indexing something like:
I don't know that I can really consider this a bug. It's very easy to
make infinite loops with symlinks. You can trap all sorts of
command-line scripts and so on in them.
>Also I am still very confused on what causes htdig to revert back to the
>web server from a local url.
>I understand it should use it for files like .cgi and .shtml, but going
>back for every file thats not .html doesnt make sense. Is there a way to
>make it _only_ use the web server for .cgi and .shtml?
I don't understand what you mean by "every file that's not .html."
The 3.1.5 version indexes .txt and .pdf files. Beyond that, it would
have a difficult time working out the MIME-type of the file without
either a mime.types file or something like mod_mime_magic in the
Apache server. If it doesn't know what type of file it is, it *has*
to go to the server!
-Geoff
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