[Search-l] Browser Test

[Tom Wright]

Just a warning - I'm in no way an official source of information.

The point isn't so much that the webservers are separate machines but
that they are on a seperate LAN, so for each external querie you have
to open a connection outside the lan - But this is just conjecture on
my part.

Yes there is an openly accessible api. (Though I'm not sure whether
it's syntax is permanently fixed yet.) The URL is:

http://not-quite-ready-yet.index.swlabs.org/nutchsearch?query=<<QUERY>>&hitsPerSite=1&lang=en&hitsPerPage=10&type=json&start=<<START
DISPLAY FROM>>.

This is talking to a nutch interface - so if you are trying to play
with parameters looking at the nutch documentation might help.

If you implement a serverside front-end, it might be useful if you'd
submit the code back to search wikia. This could be used a fallback
front-end if javascript is not supported.

Remember (as I'm sure you've heard several times) that search wikia is
still a work in progress, so some things will likely be slightly
broken.

Tom Wright




On Feb 12, 2008 2:53 PM, Markus Petz <markus.petz at chello.at> wrote:
> At 12.02.2008 15:02, you wrote:
> >The use of javascript is fundamental to the current approach - it is
> >not just being used for presentation or dynamic effects.
>
> Thank you for the expanation. It makes me think you wanted too much
> functionality whilst not being able to provide the basics. You are going to
> have a lot of troubles if you rely on client-side presentation only. There
> should be at least the option to have a clean server-provided presentation
> page. This has nothing to do with the database server setup. you can still
> have any db setup you like, with all the remote access and stuff. The
> webserver(s) naturally are separate machines. As a user i could care less
> how it works, if it works.
>
> That does mean there will be an openly accessible API to the search server?
> In that case i might be wanting to write my own quick frontend on my own
> HTTP server, bypassing all the unnecessary stuff of wikia.
>
>
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