TODO list

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Here is a list of things have been requested or that are in the works. They in no particular order. Tasks that are outstanding are designated with a square. Tasks which are complete but not in the current production release yet are designated with a circle, and tasks which have been completed and are in the current production release are designated with a bullet.

Feature requests and bug reports are always welcome. They should be posted on our feature request and bug tracking databases. If you'd like to make feature requests or bug reports by e-mail, you can send them to the htdig-dev mailing list.

• Redesign the database backend to support additional enhancements:
  • Phrase searching
  • Field-based searching
  • "Collections" of multiple databases
  • Continual indexing
  • Parallel indexing and searching
• Add support for BSDI make program
• Add support for different transport protocols
  • Gopher
  • FTP
  • local filesystem
  • HTTP-PROXY
  • HTTPS
  • HTTP/1.1
• Better Internationalization
  • Support for UTF-8
  • Allow character translation (e.g. remove accents)
• Better examples of configuration and result templates
• Eliminate or detect duplicate documents
• Send one e-mail per author using htnotify
• Allow "external converters," programs to perform some action on files before parsing.
  • Compress, gzip, bzip2, zlib decoders
  • DVI, TeX -> PS decoders
• Allow XSSI or similar expansion in search templates
• AltaVista style +/- boolean queries
• Support for browser cookies and a browser cache
• Search improvements
  • Phrase searching
  • New fuzzy search types
    • Automatic spelling correction
    • Trigram matching
    • Regex word match