Re: Breaking The Search Facility

Thank you for the assuming that the behaviour has changed, rather than the fact that I've got things wrong. You're right: it has changed. Wierd!
From work, I got a popup saying "Connection to www.perlmonks.org broken". From home, last night, I got a web page back, but it contained the text "Connection to server lost" (or similar).
Wierdly, I got the same result last night with parenthesis, but now I just get thrown back to the gates.
I'd be happy to change the title, but I don't know how, I'm afraid... Poor little newbie ;)

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Re: Re: Breaking The Search Facility - And Repairing it by tommyw (Hermit) on Sep 17, 2001 at 22:11 UTC
Ok, I've got back to my home machine, since I was puzzled by the different behaviour I got in work. Home: Lynx 2.8.5 or Konqueror 2.2.1 on Mandrake Work: Konqy 2.2.1 on Solaris (from source) Searching on "pare" or "parenthesis" from home, using lynx gives me a "502 Server Hangup" warning. This is then followed by a mostly empty page: Server Hangup _________________________________________________________________ Description: Server Hangup _________________________________________________________________ With Konqy, I don't get the inital warning, just the error page. I've also tried it with "flibble", and get the same results. So I now suspect that there's a bug in the "zero hits" handler of the search engine (which explains why the problem on "paren" went away as soon as I reported it. Typical ;-)	[reply]

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Re: Re: Breaking The Search Facility - And Repairing it
by tommyw (Hermit) on Sep 17, 2001 at 22:11 UTC

Ok, I've got back to my home machine, since I was puzzled by the different behaviour I got in work.

Searching on "pare" or "parenthesis" from home, using lynx gives me a "502 Server Hangup" warning. This is then followed by a mostly empty page:

                                 Server Hangup
     _________________________________________________________________

   Description: Server Hangup
     _________________________________________________________________

I've also tried it with "flibble", and get the same results. So I now suspect that there's a bug in the "zero hits" handler of the search engine (which explains why the problem on "paren" went away as soon as I reported it. Typical ;-)

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