WWW::Search::SFgate - class for searching SFgate/Wais search engine

NAME

WWW::Search::SFgate - class for searching SFgate/Wais search engine

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

This module is not included with the standard ActivePerl distribution. It is available as a separate download using PPM.

SYNOPSIS

    require WWW::Search;
    $search = new WWW::Search('SFgate');

DESCRIPTION

This class is a SFgate specialization of WWW::Search. It queries and interprets searches based on SFgate, which is available at http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/SFgate/welcome.html

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

This object rewrites URLs to use the preformatted, verbose output format of SFgate. This allows it to get the 'score' and 'size' information easily. The url portions it rewrites are 'verbose=1' and 'listenv=pre'.

OPTIONS

This search supports standard WWW::Search arguments

search_url
The SFgate URL to search. This usually looks like http://somehost/cgi-bin/SFgate

search_args
The arguments used for the search engine, separate them by &.

SEE ALSO

To make new back-ends, see the WWW::Search manpage,

AUTHOR

WWW::Search::SFgate is written by Paul Lindner, <lindner@itu.int>

BUGS

Things not supported: $result->raw()

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1997,98 by the United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC)

All rights reserved.

 WWW::Search::SFgate - class for searching SFgate/Wais search engine