From grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca Tue Nov 24 15:04:46 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:50:15 -0600 (CST)
From: Gilles Detillieux <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca>
To: Geoffrey.R.Hutchison@williams.edu
Cc: grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca, htdig@sdsu.edu
Subject: Re: htdig: Free BSD, local_urls

According to Geoff Hutchison:
> 
> At 6:47 PM -0500 11/23/98, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> >Anything wrong there, or is this a bug?
> 
> Dunno. Try running with "-vvv" and see what the out put is--it should tell
> you the filename when it tries files.

Here's what htdig -vvv told me...

pick: www.scrc.umanitoba.ca:80, # servers = 1
78:78:2:http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil/: Trying local file /home/grdetil/public_html/
Local retrieval failed, trying HTTP
Retrieval command for http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil/: GET /~grdetil/ HTTP/1.0

So it never tacked on the "index.html"!  I looked at htdig/Retriever.cc,
and sure enough, Retriever::IsLocalUser() doesn't even use "local_default_doc".
Here's the patch:

--- htdig-3.1.0b2/htdig/Retriever.cc.lcldoc	Mon Nov  2 18:21:51 1998
+++ htdig-3.1.0b2/htdig/Retriever.cc	Tue Nov 24 14:14:33 1998
@@ -735,6 +735,8 @@
 	}
 	*local += *dir;
 	*local += rest;
+	if (local->last() == '/' && config["local_default_doc"] != "")
+	    *local += config["local_default_doc"];
 	return local;
     }
     return 0;

Now, the only things it gets from the server are /robots.txt and
/manual/LICENSE.  If I really wanted to run totally serverless, as some
people on this list were asking about, it would require further patches
to htdig/Server.cc (to get robots.txt locally) and htdig/Document.cc
(to allow files without suffixes, and .txt files, as text/plain type,
rather than returning Document_not_local).  I'll leave it as an exercise
for the reader.  :-)

-- 
Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Phone:  (204)789-3766
Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)   Fax:    (204)789-3930
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