Yes, I had that problem too and Jose sent this patch.
http indexing seems to work fine now but I have a new problem. The 
resulting index contains the words that I need but search can not find them.
I can make the index with http and run a
swish-e2 -D -f index.file | grep abstract
and I find a line for abstract

abstract: 2 1 1 9 1 138 2 7 1 9 1 4670 2 9 1 73 1.......

but then if I search
swish-e2 -w "abstract" -f index.file
I get
....
# SWISH format 2.0
# Search words: abstract
err: no results

Bryan
At 03:09 AM 9/25/00 -0700, jmruiz@boe.es wrote:
>Hi Bryan,
>
>Sorry, it was my fault!!
>Just change line 251 of http.c:
>
>From:
>
>fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), fp);
>
>To:
>
>fgets(buffer, lenbuffer, fp);
>
>Explanation:
>I changed buffer from a internal function variable to a char pointer
>that is allocated dinamically. In this case, sizeof(buffer) is always 4
>(the size of a pointer) instead of the true length of the buffer. For this
>reason the contenttype was never read properly and the contents
>was not indexed.
>
>Sorry for the inconvenience. Let me know if this fix the problem.
>
>cu
>Jose
At 04:38 AM 9/28/00 -0700, Stephan Engelke wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I tried to index a site by using hte http access method using swish-e
>version 2.0.2.  Unfortunatly the only words which ended up in the
>index were the components of the filenames.  The swishspider script
>returns the contents of the pages correctly.
>
>I am using the configuration file which came with the distribution and
>modified only the relevant paths.
>
>Has anyone else experienced this, too?  Or is it a known bug?
>
>Regards -- Stephan
>--
>Stephan Engelke                                                engelke@gmx.net
>               *** I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've 
> got! ***

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