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Overview of the Search Page

The Search Page is a small HTML page that includes a POSTing form, which POST the query to search.pl. This form was shown in Figure 3.

This page includes the following variables:

    		"sstring" - Contains the searching string.
    		"domain"  - Contains the domain restriction on Rumour suggestions.
			"aobox"   - Contains the result of the radio box for the choice 
						of AND or OR of string.
			"cindex"  - Decide if search.pl should suggest too.

In the search page, "cindex" is hidden. Once OK is choosen, the above information will be send to cgi-bin/search.pl of the current server in the above order.



Tommy Wing Yiu Tsui
Tue Nov 7 10:21:32 EST 1995