HTTP Port problems 80 and 8081

[jellybean]

This isn't critical for us, but I thought I'd post it.

We have two test sites running off our box that we wanted to index and use for a search test, but I could not get Zoom to index when I added multiple site start points with different ports.

http://server:8081/
http://server:80/

It would index only the top one and ignore the second. Also the categorisation does not appear to be possible using the port number as a pattern.

[Ray]

We had a look at this and you're right, there is a bug. But the cause of it is a little obscure.

The problem has to do with the fact that we canonicalize the URL for additional start points. Due to the fact that port 80 is the default HTTP port, Windows decides that it will drop the ":80" part of the URL when we put your URL through this function. However, we do this after we determine the base URL, so this causes the start URL ("http://server/") to conflict with the base URL ("http://server:80/").

Fortunately, the workaround is relatively simple.

Instead of "http://server:80/", use "http://server/" as your second start point. This should achieve the same thing and work as expected.

You should be able to categorize these two sites accordingly. Specify one category with a pattern of "http://server:8081/" and the other with a pattern for "http://server/". Note the slash at the end of the pattern is important. You may also want to check the option so that "Files belonging to this category can not belong to any other category" applies for both categories.

[Ray]

This problem has been fixed in the latest release (V6.0 build 100 which can be downloaded from here:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/whatsnew.html