NAME

Apache::CustomKeywords - Customizable toolbar for MSIE

SYNOPSIS

  # 1. As an Apache proxy
  Listen 8888
  <VirtualHost *:8888>
  PerlTransHandler +Apache::CustomKeywords
  CustomKeyword cpan http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=%s
  CustomKeyword perldoc http://perldoc.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=%s&restrict=perl5.8.0
  CustomKeyword google http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
  </VirtualHost>

  # 2. As a pseudo-MSN
  <Location /response.asp>
  SetHandler perl-script
  PerlHandler +Apache::CustomKeywords
  CustomKeyword cpan http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=%s
  # ...
  </Location>

DESCRIPTION

Apache::CustomKeywords is a customizable proxy/webapp to change your MSIE's Location box to your favourite toolbar!

See http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html for what Custom Keywords means in Mozilla. This module enables Custom Keywords in MSIE.

With CustomKeyword settings shown in "SYNOPSIS", you type cpan CustomKeywords or google blah blah in your browser's Location: box, then you will be redirected to the page you wanna go to!

If your command is not recognized by this module, the first CustomKeyword entry is used as default.

Here's the way this handler works:

Type "foo bar" in Location: box
MSIE sends request to auto.search.msn.com
Apache::CustomKeywords detects it and redirects browser to your favourite search engine.

CONFIGURATION

There're two ways to let your browser use this module:

As a proxy server: configure httpd.conf with a proxy version and set up your browser's proxy setting.
As a pseudo MSN: configure httpd.conf with psuedo MSN version and set up your Hosts file (/etc/hosts in Un*x, Windows/Hosts or windows/system/drivers/etc/Hosts in Win32) or local DNS so that auto.search.msn.com points to the server where this module is installed.

NOTE

If you put : or @ as a query in Location: box, MSIE recognizes it as protocol or authentication password stuff, hence this module might not work.

TODO

User-definable conversion of query paramers, including encoding conversions. Currenty only %s interpolates to URI-Escaped string encoded in UTF8.

AUTHOR

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.