search.cgi Enable Compression Content-Encoding gzip

[sazizrahman]

Hi,
1 ) I am using search.cgi in my site. Is there anyway to get a compressed result either gzip of deflate.

What i mean to say, How to set the configuration to return
Content-Encoding=gzip


2) I have read in the forums that search.cgi is actually an exe. I have tried it by changing extension and it is. My question is: How can i pass arguments to the exe using command line ..
My current url is /search.cgi?zoom_query=Engineering

Can i do something like on command promot and get the result.
search.exe zoom_query=Engineering

[Ray]

1) This is a web server configuration issue. For example, in Apache, you can configure via the .htaccess file to compress all text/html output from the /cgi-bin/ folder. Or the .cgi extension. Note that although it is a "search.cgi" file, the output from the CGI is ultimately in text/html.

This specific example is given in the Apache documentation here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod...utfilterbytype

The configuration below causes all script output labeled as text/html to be processed at first by the INCLUDES filter and then by the DEFLATE filter.

<Location /cgi-bin/>
Options Includes
AddOutputFilterByType INCLUDES;DEFLATE text/html
</Location>

Please refer to the Apache documentation for details.

2) You have to pass the parameters via an environment variable named "QUERY_STRING" (as with ALL CGIs), not the command line. You can find examples of how to do this programmatically with PHP or ASP here:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support...i.html#ssi_cgi

[sazizrahman]

Thanks for the quick reply. Regarding point no 2, I have checked the URL and tried it but I am unable to get complete result. Here is what i did

<?php
$REMADDR = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
putenv('REQUEST_METHOD=GET');
putenv('QUERY_STRING=Engineering');
putenv('REMOTE_ADDR=$REMADDR');
$output = shell_exec('C:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\zoom\\search.cgi');
$output = ereg_replace('Content-type: text/html', '', $output);
echo $output;
?>

The result I am getting is this.

; charset=windows-1252

<p></p>
<!--Zoom Search Engine Version 6.0 (1014) ENT-->

</p><p></p>

Would you please tell what I am missing.
Thanks in advance.

[Ray]

putenv('QUERY_STRING=Engineering');

You're misunderstanding the QUERY_STRING. This is a CGI parameter, not specific to Zoom. It is not a search query string, but rather a HTTP GET query.

In other words, it has to be the actual parameters, e.g.

QUERY_STRING=zoom_query=Engineering&zoom_per_page= 20

The output implies that you have a mostly empty (except for a few <p> </p> tags) search_template.html file too.

And you should probably change the ereg_replace line with this:

[FONT=Courier New][COLOR=#0000bb]$output [/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]= [/COLOR][COLOR=#0000bb]ereg_replace[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]([/COLOR][COLOR=#dd0000]'Content-type: text/html[COLOR=#000000]; [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=red]charset=windows-1252'[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700], [/COLOR][COLOR=#dd0000]''[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700], [/COLOR][COLOR=#0000bb]$output[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]); [/COLOR][/FONT]