bug or feature?

[sirsyko@ishiboo.com]

Hello,

	Today I started investigating the use of webglimpse for indexing our
webtrees at work. Some background on our environment:

Solaris 2.6
SunPro C 4.2
Perl 5.005_61
Glimps 4.1
WebGlimpse 1.7.6edu

	After compiling, and installing, I tried to run confarc. The first
problem I had was that some of the url matching had the string '[\w-\.]' which
perl complained about being an invalid range. I escaped the - which allowed
confarc to run.

	After running confarc on a portion of a test tree I ran, I became 
very happy at the results of glimpse (I tried 1.5, and 1.6 earlier, with 
bad results. I had a long email typed up to send, at which point I found out
about 1.7.1 and 1.7.6 so I investigated these as well). 1.7.6 seems to work
fine. I tried running it on a larger portion of my web tree, and set
numhops to 9 in my archive.cfg. An hour later, it looked like it was indexing
the same stuff over and over and over again, which it turns out it was.

I broke it, left numhops set to 9, and searched a smaller set of our web tree.
After doing some searches, I was given the following results from a search:

http://www/global/ccmc-new/trees/it/docs/VendorDocs/Apache/././././dns-caveats.html
http://www/global/ccmc-new/trees/it/docs/VendorDocs/Apache/./././dns-caveats.html
http://www/global/ccmc-new/trees/it/docs/VendorDocs/Apache/././dns-caveats.html
http://www/global/ccmc-new/trees/it/docs/VendorDocs/Apache/./dns-caveats.html
http://www/global/ccmc-new/trees/it/docs/VendorDocs/Apache/dns-caveats.html


Now, was this a fault of mine? Or might this be a bug in the software. I
set numhops to 9 because it sounded reasonable to me, because we have sorted
our documents into  many directories.

Any advice here?

Thanks,

Adam


p.s. I'll probably try going to 1.7.1 next because I just realized that the
"Commercial Demo" was actually the "Edu Demo".