Recent changes to bugs

Error on query Win32 0.26

2006-03-01T06:47:50Z

no data shows up for any query

localhost - - [28/Feb/2006 13:58:35] "GET
/search?q=hamlet+full+text&s=google HT
TP/1.1" 200 -
google
----------------------------------------
Exception happened during processing of request from
('127.0.0.1', 3028)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "SocketServer.pyc", line 222, in handle_request
File "SocketServer.pyc", line 241, in process_request
File "SocketServer.pyc", line 254, in finish_request
File "SocketServer.pyc", line 521, in __init__
File "BaseHTTPServer.pyc", line 324, in handle
File "BaseHTTPServer.pyc", line 318, in handle_one_request
File "SimpleHTTPServer.pyc", line 41, in do_GET
File "gui\GuiHTTPServer.pyc", line 101, in send_head
File "gui\GuiHTTPServer.pyc", line 267, in run_cgi
File "gui\search.pyc", line 388, in run
KeyError: 'clusters'
----------------------------------------
localhost - - [28/Feb/2006 13:58:36] code 404, message
File not found
localhost - - [28/Feb/2006 13:58:36] "GET /favicon.ico
HTTP/1.1" 404 -
localhost - - [28/Feb/2006 13:58:36] code 404, message
File not found
localhost - - [28/Feb/2006 13:58:36] "GET /favicon.ico
HTTP/1.1" 404 -

Dowser makes nonhidden subdir in $HOME

2005-02-15T11:37:03Z

Dowser creates a /home/reinout/dowser on my machine.

It is bad practice for applications to put nonhidden
stuff in a user's home directory without asking.
Especially irritating if you use your home dir as
desktop (like you can do in GNOME). Please use .dowser
or any other way of not cluttering the home dir. Thanks.

open port

2005-01-21T18:33:14Z

On Dowser v. 0.26 for Mac OS X, the port (5309) is open to the world. This does not respect the choice made on the settings page. I can see no way to restrict this port to the local machine.

Lee Phillips
sf@lee-phillips.org

Windows version of Dowser 0.26 does not start

2004-11-22T05:26:57Z

Windows 2000:
The startup just opens the DOS windows, some text
flashes in it, and that DOS windows closses.

If dowser.exe is invoked from the shell, this is the
error message generated:

D:\Program_Files\Dowser>dowser.exe
\ Traceback (most recent call last):
File "startdowser.py", line 6, in ?
File "db_sqlite.pyc", line 23, in ?
File "util.pyc", line 523, in ?
File "util.pyc", line 327, in init
File "util.pyc", line 274, in initdefault
File "util.pyc", line 262, in saveprefs
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'\\/dowser/prefs.pickle'

Version 0.24 did not have such a problem.

Feature request - search "profiles"

2004-10-18T15:49:46Z

People who use the same machine for work and personal
stuff tend to search in various clearly defined
"roles". For instance, I am a computer science
researcher, and so sometimes I'll be searching for
research papers on my laptop. Other times, i'll be at
home, and I'll search for something totally unrelated
like WordPress plugins.

It might be nice to be able to tell dowser that the
thing i'm searching for in particular is for "work" or
for "personal" (or for any other category you can think
of. It would make the search cache alot more useful,
and shoudl really involve only adding an extra term to
the search url
[http://127.0.0.1:port/search?q=search+term&profile=work],
and then we could augment out Firefox search
descriptions to directly use such profiles. Might be a
nice addition, and mightn't be that hard to implement
if you're also working on multi-user stuff (although
that's probably far better achieved using cookies).

Just a thought. Might hack it up.

missing prefs.pickle exits dowser.

2004-10-11T02:24:31Z

I used the installer ( http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/
sourceforge/dowser/dowser-0.26-install.exe ).

When I try to run dowser I get this:

C:\Program Files\Dowser Web Search>dowser
\ Traceback (most recent call last):
File "startdowser.py", line 6, in ?
File "db_sqlite.pyc", line 23, in ?
File "util.pyc", line 523, in ?
File "util.pyc", line 327, in init
File "util.pyc", line 274, in initdefault
File "util.pyc", line 262, in saveprefs
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '\\/dowser/
prefs.pickle'

C:\Program Files\Dowser Web Search>

I'm running on a w2k with sp2/IE5 installed.

There is no other python based application installed on
the machine as I am aware of.

When I'm online I can be reached at yahoo.com, ksflock.

Best regards
Staale Flock

OS X: stops working after changing to german

2004-10-06T09:23:16Z

OS X 10.3.5
OmniWeb 5.0 (also tried Safari)

Started from Disk Image, tried the example Search (something
about Hamlet), then Preferences, changed to "Deutch", Saved -
new page was empty.

Since then, every time I start Dowser, the page (http://127.0.0.1:
5309/) is empty.

move application data

2004-09-29T09:43:58Z

On Mac at least, it's not so hot to store application data in $HOME
directly. Certainly also on other platforms there are better places
to store this. Can I suggest, on Mac at least, to move the data files
into ~/Library/Application Support/dowser/<blah> ? The relevant
lines are in db.py, db_sqllite.py and utils.py.

There's a similar folder on Windows, and perhaps linux bods might
prefer $HOME/.dowser/<blah>

Good work tho!