Re: RAPI Spec Comments

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Hugo Rabson wrote:

> On Monday, December 13, 1999, Aaron Turner wrote:-
> > I'd prefer it NOT be a CGI, but rather either PHP or mod_perl.  CGI's cost
> > an additional fork() and I'm trying to keep everything very optimized for
> > the search engine.
> 
> I could put the API on hold & reverse-engineer the search engine via the
> search page (so to speak *g*). I might as well write the command-line script
> now, and later use it as a reference point when writing the API.

That sounds reasonable.  It would also make the server side API engine
very simular to the existing web engine which makes it very simple to
impliment then.
 
> Does the search engine have a web page at the moment? I'd like to try
> talking to it with tcl and wget. I'd have to do this anyway, with or without
> an API, so I figure that it would be good for me to actually _do_ something.
> :)

Yep.  Checkout http://dev.linuxkb.org:81/

Be sure to look at the advanced form too.


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