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Submission for OS/2 V1.1
18 Feb 1998
Submission for OS/2 is a site submitter.
I was reading the newsgroups and saw that someone asked for a site submitter - so I decided to write one.
Currently, although the dialog has space for catagory and keywords, these fields are not being used.
It is easy to write new extention - for different search engines - if your a rexx programmer have a look at the engine.lst
The entire application is written in DrRexx, a neat IBM tool that IBM have never done anything with.
If you use this program, send an email to os2software@yoursite.co.uk
if you write a new search engine thingo - send an email to os2software@yoursite.co.uk
if you want to get a new list of search engines then try http://www.yoursite.co.uk/os/2/
Please understand that it is a condition of usage that you send an email to os2software@yoursite.co.uk
No emails and I will decide that No one download it
No one downloads and so No improvements...
I am not asking for a cheque - just an email.
Technical
Currently the system only uses GET rather than POST type forms, that is it works with any site where you can see the details
on the url rather than being hidden (why I am telling a group of web developers this I don't know).
I promise the next major release will support POST.
To design a new engine - the following needs adding to the file engine.lst
Name of Site
DNS Name of Submission engine
rc=SockSendTo(socket,'get /cgi-bin/whateverthe.cgi?query='||url||'&email='||email,address.!)
A single line - currently used for TTL but their just in case.
for example
Lycos
www.Lycos.com
rc=SockSendTo(socket,'get /cgi-bin/spider_now.pl?query='||url||'&email='||email,address.!)
14 Days
keywords for inclusion in the above are
baseurl inserts url in form www.yoursite.co.uk/os/2
url inserts url in form http://www.yoursite.co.uk/os/2/
email inserts your email address me@here.com
catagory inserts the selected catagory
keywords inserts the keywords (upto 20)
So a possible site could look like
Test
www.testsubmit.com
rc=SockSendTo(socket,'get /cgi-bin/submit.pl?query='||url||'&email='||email||'&catagory='||catagory||'&keywords='||keywords,address.!)
14 Days
catagory.lst
this is a list of the catagories.
See file - but Format is
Catagory Name and Engines Compatibility
Catagory Format
You can add catagories by changing the file
Legal...
The software is copyright and remains the property of PowerDale IT Ltd.
We ask no money - but don't sue us if it goes wrong.
Usage is conditional on you sending an email to os2software@yoursite.co.uk
History
15/Feb/98 Decided to write site submitter - V1.0 written.
16/Feb/98 Double number of scripts (4)
18/Feb/98 Improved Documentation - made keywords and catagory functional
Released 1.1, which has a minor modification to the application