Re: search engine uses Referrer: field

1999-09-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:04:48PM +0200, Eric Marsden wrote: > Hi folks, > > I notice that the search engine at > >http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl> > > seems to use the Referrer field when generating the URLs allowing you > to jump to a specific package (I notice this becau

Re: search engine uses Referrer: field

1999-09-06 Thread Darren O. Benham
That's one of the points... the cgi scripts are all on one machine, not mirrored with the html pages.. On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 01:32:51PM +0200, Eric Marsden wrote: > > "ms" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ms> Yes, it's done to be able to point to a mirror next to you ins

Re: search engine uses Referrer: field

1999-09-06 Thread Eric Marsden
> "ms" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ms> Yes, it's done to be able to point to a mirror next to you instead ms> of the general one. Can you give details on what you send and receive ms> and what is wrong with it, I'm sure the script can be fixed. I set Referrer: to "htt

Re: search engine uses Referrer: field

1999-09-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Eric Marsden wrote: > Hi folks, > > I notice that the search engine at > >http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl> > > seems to use the Referrer field when generating the URLs allowing you > to jump to a specific package (I notice this because I browse the web > via a filtering prox

search engine uses Referrer: field

1999-09-06 Thread Eric Marsden
Hi folks, I notice that the search engine at http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl> seems to use the Referrer field when generating the URLs allowing you to jump to a specific package (I notice this because I browse the web via a filtering proxy which happens to stick a fixed value