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       Title     : Experimental HTTP methods to support indexing and 
                   searching                                               
       Author(s) : M. Hamilton, D. LaLiberte
       Filename  : draft-hamilton-indexing-00.txt
       Pages     : 10
       Date      : 06/13/1996

This document briefly outlines current approaches to indexing and 
searching, proposes some experimental mechanisms which might be deployed 
within HTTP [1] in support of these activities, and concludes with a 
discussion of the issues raised.               
                            
The key features which are seen as desirable are a standardized way of 
providing a local search capability on the information being made available
by an HTTP server, and a way of reducing both the bandwidth consumed by 
indexing agents and the amount of work done by HTTP servers during the 
indexing process.                                                          

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