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 release yet are designated with a circle, and tasks which have been completed and are in the current release are designated with a bullet.

Feature requests and bug reports are always welcome. They should be sent to <htdig3-bugs@htdig.org>

• 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 decoders," 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