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From: Bill Moseley <moseley(at)not-real.hank.org> Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 15:16:15 GMT

At 05:36 AM 01/22/02 -0800, Rich Thomas wrote:
>I've tried using the sample cgi script that's provided in the Quick Start
>documentation and keep getting an error

Hi Rich,

Which Quick Start documentation?

That script is not part of the swish-e distribution.  Where did it come from?

>Bad keyword: `'. Please don't use commas or non-alphanumeric characters.

That means you entered something that matched that regular expression
below, I assume.

If you want to use the swish.cgi script in the distribution then I'd be
happy to help.

>
>This comes up before I'm able to enter any search criteria.  I'm running the
>latest swish dev on a Solaris 8 sparc machine.  Where is the script picking
>up the input that it says is bad?  I'll attach the search.cgi script here.
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!!  as always
>
>Rich
>
># cat search.cgi
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>#
># Kira's simple SWISH-E search CGI
>#
>#use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
>
># You'll need to change this to the document root of your webspace.
># for personal accounts, change it to /home/yourusername/public_html.
># If you're running your own server, it should be the path to your
># document root for the server, e.g. /home/htdocs
>$docroot = '/export/home/apache/htdocs';
>
># This also must be changed; if you've used your personal account path
># above,  you should change this to /~youruserid so the webserver can
># properly translate the URL for your files.  For non-personal pages,
># just set this to blank.
>$prefix = '';
>
>print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
>
># customize this section as appropriate for your site
>print <<EndHTML;
><html><head><title>Search Results</title></head>
><body>
><h2 align="CENTER">Search Results</h2>
>EndHTML
>
>read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
>@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
>foreach $pair (@pairs) {
>    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
>    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
>    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
>    $value =~ s/~!/ ~!/g;
>    $FORM{$name} = $value;
>}
>
>$keystring = $FORM{'keywords'};
>if ($keystring =~ /^([\w\-\. ]+)$/ ) {
>    $topic = $1;
>} else {
>    &dienice("Bad keyword: `$topic'.  Please don't use commas or
>non-alphanumeric characters.");
>}
>
>@results = `/usr/local/bin/swish-e -w "$topic" -f
>/export/home/thomasr/public_html/rich.index`;
>$ct = 0;
>foreach $i (@results) {
># results are returned in the form:
># relevance path title filesize
># separated by spaces.
># comments start with #, and the last line starts with a ., so we're
>#ignoring those:
>        if ($i =~ /^#/ or $i =~ /^\./) {
># errors start with 'err', so we'll pass those on to dienice:
>        } elsif ($i =~ /^err/) {
>           $i =~ s/^err/Error/;
>           &dienice($i);
>#
>        } else {
>           ($start, $title, $size) = split(/\"/,$i);
>       ($perc, $url) = split(/ /,$start);
>       $perc = $perc / 1000 * 100;
>       $percstr = sprintf("%3.1f\%",$perc);
># since the "url" returned is really the full unix path to the file,
># you need to translate this to a proper web url. Change the docroot
># and prefix variables as described above.
>       $url =~ s/^$docroot/$prefix/;
>       print "<a href=\"$url\">$title</a> - $percstr <br>\n";
>       $ct = $ct + 1;
>    }
>}
>
>
>if ($ct == 0) {
>   print "No results found.<p>\n";
>}
>
>&do_footer;
>
>sub do_footer {
># customize this section as appropriate for your site
>print <<EndFoot;
><p>
>$ct results found.<p>
>
></body>
></html>
>EndFoot
>}
>
>sub dienice {
>   my($msg) = @_;
>   print "<h2>Error</h2>\n";
>   print $msg;
>   &do_footer;
>   exit;
>}
>
>
># the end.
>
>
-- 
Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@hank.org

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