From kde-bugs-dist  Thu Jun 07 05:35:42 2001
From: e9625392 () student ! tuwien ! ac ! at
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 05:35:42 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#26851: A more flexible solution for internet keywords
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Package: konqueror
Version: 2.2alpha2 (using KDE 2.2.0 \6alpha2)
Severity: wishlist
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.5
OS/Compiler notes: 

I'd like to use the internet keywords to find names in an online telephone book. Therefore I want to specify things like name, city and perhaps some other things too.
To be possible to pass different words to different locations in the URL (and not all entered key at the position where \1 is located) it is necessary to enhance it this way:
\0 means all entered keywords
\1 means first entered keyword
\2 means second entered keyword
 ...
\9 means the nineth keyword

This may be the easiest method to implement but breaks compatibility with old keywords (\1 now means only first kw instead of all).

A more flexible solution would be to support user defined variable names:
tel:http://my.telephone.book/query?name=\name&city=\city
You could specify this internet keyword like the following in the browser:
tel:name=myname city=mycity

I'd suggest to support both, the short form (via \0, \1, ...) for quick entries (you don't have to remember the variable names, only the order is important) and named variables for advanced queries, so the user can choose which suites best for his situation.

When this gets changed, then it is necessary to change all the existing internet keywords to the new scheme. Feel free to contact me to do that job.


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