[Xapian-discuss] Can Omega be used as an OpenSearch engine for Windows Federated Search?

[Rune Kock]

I run a linux file server.  However, Win7 clients complain that it
lacks a search function.  So I hope that I can install xapian-omega on
the server, and integrate that with Win7.

It seems that MS has for once tried to make this easy.  It is a
two-step process.  The server needs to run an OpenSearch 1.1
web-service.  And the client needs to register to the service by
reading an osdx-file, which is a small, static xml-file that describes
the web-service.

MS has docs here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd742958%28VS.85%29.aspx

Now, Omega has an OpenSearch 1.0 template.  But the following comment
isn't encouraging: "The opensearch template isn't really finished - it
was more a quick hack to see how fiddly it would be."
(http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/2006-January/000288.html).
 That mail is three years old, and nothing much seems to have happened
since then.

If anyone has tried something like this, please share your experiences
(negative/positive).


Thanks,

Rune
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