WWW::SearchBroker - Parallel metasearcher for Internet-based services (WWW, IMAP, LDAP, etc.)

	use WWW::SearchBroker::Broker;
	# Create a Broker
	my $broker = new WWW::SearchBroker::Broker(
		timeout => 10, # wait up to 10s for responses from agents
	);
	my $ret = $broker->fork_and_loop();

	use WWW::SearchBroker::Search;
	# Port the broker server is running on
	my $port = 9000;

	# Search query
	my $srch = 'SEARCH<15><a,b,c><foo bar>';

	# Create a search requestor
	my $search = new WWW::SearchBroker::Search(port => $port);

	$search->send_query('SEARCH','perl *pl','grep','grep','grep');
	$search->dump_results();

	# Quit broker
	$search = new WWW::SearchBroker::Search(port => $port);
	$search->send_query('QUIT','','');
	$search->dump_results();

Parallel metasearcher for Internet-based services (WWW, IMAP, LDAP, etc.). See 'Personalised metasearch: Augmenting your brain' http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw03/papers/bailey/ for more details.

This module has only been tested on the Monash network using Monash Internet services. Since it builds off other CPAN modules, it is expected that the module will work across a variety of standards-based environments but this has not been demonstrated. The author welcomes feedback (especially patches!) for any assumptions made that don't comply with different environments.

WWW::SearchBroker, WWW::SearchBroker::Search, WWW::SearchBroker::Common, WWW::SearchBroker::Aggregator_Scorer, tests/www_searchbroker.pl.

Nathan Bailey, <nate@cpan.org>

Copyright 2002-2003 Nathan Bailey. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version.