NAME

WWW::Search::PLweb - class for searching PLS PLweb search engine

DESCRIPTION

This class is a PLweb specialization of WWW::Search. It queries and interprets searches based on PLweb, by PLS http://www.pls.com/.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

This software assumes that you're using the default output format for a PLweb search. It should look like this:

VAL DOCUMENT DB SIZE
------------------------------------------------------------------
388 Document1 foo 1122 ...

OPTIONS

This search supports standard WWW::Search arguments

search_url

The PLweb URL to search. On unix this usually looks like http://somehost/cgi-bin/iopcode.pl

search_args

The arguments used for the search engine, separate them by &.

SEE ALSO

To make new back-ends, see WWW::Search,

AUTHOR

WWW::Search::PLweb is written by Paul Lindner, <lindner@itu.int> saving to disk.

BUGS

Things not supported: $result->raw(), options: search_debug.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1997 by the United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC)

All rights reserved.