HouseSpider

This release fixes several bugs related to local file search (on hard drive or CD-ROM). It adds rudimentary support for iframes and makes the applet support links where the URL is enclosed by single quotes (in addition to the standard double quotes.)

HouseSpider can now run as a stand-alone
application (outside the browser), which is very
useful when indexing. The applet can now read your
Web site in any charset or encoding.

This version adds an applet tag to set words that should be excluded while searching, StatusLabel and StatusLine tags to determine whether the show the status label/line, an Action tag to determine whether to index by default, font name and size applet tags, internationalization support, meta keyword searching, support for display of meta description and URL in the result list, timing of searches, and URL stripping for default index pages.

The TargetHelp and TargetSearch parameters were added for better control when opening pages. The InitInput parameter, which is used for initial commands/search, was added. The FileExclude parameter (accepting comma-separated list of files) was added. URLExclude was extended to accept a comma-separated list of URLs. The MaxSearch parameter, which sets the maximum number of hits for search, was added. A check was added for an empty name attribute for the URLExclude and FileExclude parameters. Version information was added to the applet (and Java Console).

This version features a much improved treatment of pages using framesets, improved search functionality, index files, a status line in the applet, and a parameter to turn the status line off. Search and index progress is now displayed, and debug, bgtextcolour, textcolour, and documentation URL parameters were added to the applet.