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Re: Web interface search results
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 25 Aug 1999 03:35:25 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> writes:
> Sure, sounds okay. I'm a little nervous about handling raw seconds; the big
> numbers make my puny earthling brain hurt. :-, How about using the same
> syntax used in the traffic report page; e.g.
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> http://www.lugnet.com/news/traffic/custom.cgi?hours=6
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> Shows what's happened in the past 6 hours. How about something like
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> http://www.lugnet.com/?q=jeremy+sproat&qtmonths=6&qsdays=7
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> to ask for the results to prefer articles submitted a month ago, with s
> spread of 7 days?
Apart from the URLs getting longer and more clutterred with parameters and
being harder to share via cut & paste into messages, it would probably also
mean two separate URL interpretation mechanisms (more code bloat, even if
it's broken into a separate library) rather than just one which converts
human time to epoch time along with everything else and feeds the result to
a lower layer.
BTW, how would you write the following range using the multi-parameter
approach?--
From: 31 Dec 1998 23:45:00 EST
to: 1 Jan 1999 00:30:00 EST
(Let's say you're looking for Happy New Year messages posted by people in
the New York City time zone last year.)
http://www.lugnet.com/loc/us/ny/?q=happy+new+year&........
What goes in the ....'s ?
> Hmmm... There would be lost flexibility then, as you can
> only ask for integral values of one time metric. Arg. I'll have to
> surrender to the intellectual superiority of my browser. :-P
Well, not necessarily; they could be floating point just as easily as they
could be integer (not that I don't still prefer seconds).
They numbers on the custom traffic report page are non-integer, for example:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/traffic/custom.cgi?hours=.5
http://www.lugnet.com/news/traffic/custom.cgi?hours=1.5&days=2.33333
--Todd
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