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- RFC-822-HEADERS:
- Cc: dehning, falken, grau, muenkel, niem, woelker, wollborn, bloemer
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- I had severe problems with relative pathnames when I setup
- a WAIS database of my local set of HTML pages.
-
- The idea behind setting up this database was, that I would
- be able to generate a projection of the Web based on a search.
-
- After I retrieve a HTML Page from the WAIS database I want to
- be able to follow all the links in the HTML Page.
-
- But I experienced that I could only follow links with absolute
- pathnames. A relative URL like "HREF=QuickGuide.html" was
- translated to the following:
-
- http://info:8001/info:21401/AB-WWW/HTML/2798/1=ikarus%3A21401;2=/hom
- e/bloemer/docs/wais/wais-databases/AB-WWW;3=0%202798%20/home/bloemer/appl/inter
- net/infosystems/www/tmp/WWW/LineMode/Defaults/Customisation.html;4=ikarus%3A214
- 01;5=/home/bloemer/docs/wais/wais-databases/AB-WWW;6=0%202798%20/home/bloemer/a
- ppl/internet/infosystems/www/tmp/WWW/LineMode/Defaults/QuickGuide.html
-
- This yields an error of 'Missing DocID in request'.
-
- So if you want to setup a WAIS database for searching through your
- information system the only way seems to be using absolute pathnames.
-
- Or is the last statement wrong ?
-
- Arnold
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