Web-based Spotlight server search functionality?

[Tabitha McNerney]

Thanks Kevin for your suggestion. This seems like a basic but very good
idea (and hopefully not too difficult to put together, I'll have to run
this by my boss). I am kind of surprised that no one else seems to have
done this yet (or so it seems based on the searching I've done so far).

Regards,

-Tabitha



On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:

> On 11/21/13, 6:38 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>
>> So my question is, are there any MacPorts that might be useful for, say,
>> the ability to search server volumes via a web interface (perhaps an
>> Apache module)? I'm still looking around but I haven't found much and
>> I'm kind of surprised because it strikes me as a very useful feature.
>>
>
> This could probably be done by setting up a CGI process to run Spotlight
> queries using mdfind on the server. CGI is very old-school, but I use it as
> the back end for a couple of iPhone apps I've developed, and it works just
> fine. For CGI, you can use Perl, Python, or even shell, I believe--whatever
> you are most comfortable with.
>
> --Kevin
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