[Xapian-discuss] Remote access to database

[Francis Irving]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:35:41AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:34:34AM +0100, Francis Irving wrote:
> > Can anyone think of a good way to provide remote, read-only, anonymous
> > access to a Xapian database?
> 
> Use the remote backend?  With xapian-tcpd you can just run it on a TCP
> port on your server.  Then people can just do:
> 
> Xapian::Database db(Remote::open("theyworkforyou.com", 9999));
> 
> The remote backend doesn't support sorting on a value currently though
> which might be an issue.

You mean via Enquire::set_sorting ?

We use that.  How hard would it be to fix?

Francis