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  Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 01:23 -0700
    Re: Implement offline site search? Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@bls.gov> - 2013-02-13 09:04 -0500
      Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-13 15:23 +0100
      Re: Implement offline site search? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-02-13 15:33 +0100
    Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-13 15:06 +0100
      Re: Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-17 02:24 -0700
        Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-17 13:18 +0100
          Re: Implement offline site search? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-17 16:14 +0000
          Re: Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-17 11:54 -0700
            Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-17 20:52 +0100
              Re: Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-17 15:10 -0700
                Re: Implement offline site search? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-02-17 23:16 +0100
                Re: Implement offline site search? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-18 09:54 +1100
                  Re: Implement offline site search? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-18 10:17 +0000
                    Re: Implement offline site search? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2013-02-18 11:43 -0700
                      Re: Implement offline site search? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-19 06:27 +1100
                    Re: Implement offline site search? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-19 06:33 +1100
              Re: Implement offline site search? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-18 12:23 +0000
    Re: Implement offline site search? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-02-13 10:23 -0700
      Re: Implement offline site search? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-02-14 10:56 +0100
        Re: Implement offline site search? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-14 10:20 +0000
          Re: Implement offline site search? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-02-14 11:26 +0100
    Re: Implement offline site search? Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2013-02-14 08:07 -0500
    Re: Implement offline site search? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-02-14 22:47 +0000
    Re: Implement offline site search? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 18:49 -0800

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#18487

In message <XnsA1676F62F3772eejj99@194.109.133.133>, Evertjan. wrote:

  <snip>
>Depending on size and dynamics of a site, I would vote for serverside
>updating.

But the OP says that the web files come straight from shared discs, not
from an HTTP web server.

To echo a well-known contributor to this NG :
  There is no server!

  John
-- 
John Harris

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#18488

John G Harris wrote on 14 feb 2013 in comp.lang.javascript:

> But the OP says that the web files come straight from shared discs, not
> from an HTTP web server.
 
I missed that.

> To echo a well-known contributor to this NG :
>   There is no server!

A bad idea, as, without servitude, how can we users be the masters?

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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#18489

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:23:17 -0700, Robert Crandal wrote:

>Our website is stored on a local hard-drive on a computer
>that has no Internet access.  It's basically an offline website
>that only our company can use.
>
>Is it possible to add a search feature to this website using
>Javascript?  I want to let users "type a search string", and
>then somehow search all the HTML documents on the
>hard drive for string matches, then display a new HTML
>page with the search results.  Can Javascript do this?  How?
>
>Thanks

With no web server, Windows Explorer can return a list of files
containing a user's search string. Windows 7 made it more tedious to
do so than it was in Win XP. 

The list of returned files won't be in a web page, but the files can
be opened by double-clicking.

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#18493

In comp.lang.javascript message <haWdnRUFFpDr0IbMnZ2dnUVZ5uidnZ2d@gigane
ws.com>, Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:23:17, Robert Crandal
<rcranz143101@gmail.com> posted:

>Our website is stored on a local hard-drive on a computer
>that has no Internet access.  It's basically an offline website
>that only our company can use.
>
>Is it possible to add a search feature to this website using
>Javascript?  I want to let users type a search string, and
>then somehow search all the HTML documents on the
>hard drive for string matches, then display a new HTML
>page with the search results.  Can Javascript do this?  How?


<http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/linxchek.htm> does what you perhaps
mean,; it spiders the site (in an iframe) and /inter alia/ searches for
a 'Shibboleth'.

If similar code were implemented as an HTA (restricting it to Internet
Explorer), there would be no need to provide a directory file.  For that
(without the search-in-file, which would be easy enough to add), see
<http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/32-bit/seakfyle.htm> and its
adjacent ZIP file.

Your quoted material does not say whether the only HTML documents on the
drive are those in the Web site, and does not say whether the entire
sure can be followed by using only HTML links present in the loaded
pages (linxchek does not, for example, follow connections created by
pressing buttons).

You should consider whether the string search is to be by literal match,
or to use a more versatile RegExp match - or to offer both.

-- 
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  Web  <http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - FAQqish topics, acronyms and links;
  Astro stuff via astron-1.htm, gravity0.htm ; quotings.htm, pascal.htm, etc.
 No Encoding. Quotes before replies. Snip well. Write clearly. Don't Mail News.

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#18494

Robert Crandal wrote:
> Our website is stored on a local hard-drive on a computer
> that has no Internet access.  It's basically an offline website
> that only our company can use.

Is there anything to prevent you from running a lightweight server on
this computer to serve up these same documents?  There are plenty of
options available, things like nginx, lighthttpd, Resin, Jetty, and
several that use Javascript as their chief language, such as node.js.
One of these, suitably configured, would allow you to continue to
serve the same documents, but give you additional capabilities such as
request tracking, easier indexing, and, to your point, a possibility
of adding general searching.


> Is it possible to add a search feature to this website using
> Javascript?  I want to let users type a search string, and
> then somehow search all the HTML documents on the
> hard drive for string matches, then display a new HTML
> page with the search results.  Can Javascript do this?  How?

Although Thomas pointed out a possible plan of attack with client-side
scripting, the simplest solutions, in my mind, would involve creating
one of these servers and then running some sort of crawler to scan and
index your documents.  For instance, in node.js, there are several
modules that hook into Apache Lucene, or to C ports of Lucene.  Those
would give you powerful search capabilities.

  -- Scott

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