


User Commands					     httpindex(1)



NAME
     httpindex - HTTP front-end	for SWISH++ indexer

SYNOPSIS
     wget [ options ] URL... 2>&1 | httpindex [	options	]

DESCRIPTION
     httpindex is a front-end for index(1) to index files  copied
     from  remote servers using	wget(1).  The files (in	a copy of
     the remote	directory structure) can  be  kept,  deleted,  or
     replaced with their descriptions after indexing.

OPTIONS
  wget Options
     The wget(1) options that are required are:	 -A, -nv, -r, and
     -x;  the ones that	are highly recommended are:  -l, -nh, -t,
     and -w.  (See the EXAMPLE.)

  httpindex Options
     httpindex accepts the same	-f, -F,	-i, -p,	-s,  -t,  and  -v
     options  as index(1); it does not accept the -e, -E, -l, -r,
     -S, or -V options.

     The following options are unique to httpindex:

     -d	  Replace the text of local  copies  of	 retrieved  files
	  with	their  descriptions after they have been indexed.
	  This is useful to display file descriptions  in  search
	  results  without  having to have complete copies of the
	  remote files thus saving filesystem  space.	(See  the
	  extract_description()	 function  in  WWW(3) for details
	  about	how descriptions are extracted.)

     -D	  Delete the local copies of retrieved files  after  they
	  have been indexed.  This prevents your local filesystem
	  from filling up with copies of remote	files.

EXAMPLE
     To	index all HTML and text	files  on  a  remote  web  server
     keeping descriptions locally:

	  wget -A html,txt -linf -t2 -rxnv -nh -w2 http://www.foo.com 2>&1 | httpindex -d

     Note that you need	to redirect wget(1)'s output  from  stan-
     dard error	to standard output in order to pipe it to httpin-
     dex.

EXIT STATUS
     Exits with	a  value  of  zero  only  if  indexing	completed
     sucessfully; non-zero otherwise.





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User Commands					     httpindex(1)



CAVEATS	& FILES
     Same as those for index(1).

SEE ALSO
     index(1), wget(1),	WWW(3)

AUTHOR
     Paul J. Lucas <pjl@best.com>















































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