# TODO list

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Here is a list of things have been requested or that are in the works. They in no particular order. Tasks that are outstanding are designated with a square. Tasks which are complete but not in the current release yet are designated with a circle, and tasks which have been completed and are in the current release are designated with a bullet.

Feature requests and bug reports are always welcome. They should be sent to <htdig3-bugs@htdig.org>

- Redesign the database backend to support additional enhancements:
  - Phrase searching
  - Field-based searching
  - "Collections" of multiple databases
  - Continual indexing
  - Parallel indexing and searching
- Add support for BSDI make program
- Add support for different transport protocols
  - Gopher
  - FTP
  - local filesystem
  - HTTP-PROXY
  - HTTPS
  - HTTP/1.1
- Better Internationalization
  - Support for UTF-8
  - Allow character translation (e.g. remove accents)
- Better examples of configuration and result templates
- Eliminate or detect duplicate documents
- Send one e-mail per author using htnotify
- Allow "external decoders," programs to perform some action on files before parsing.
  - Compress, gzip, bzip2, zlib decoders
  - DVI, TeX -> PS decoders
- AltaVista style +/- boolean queries
- Support for browser cookies
- Search improvements
  - Phrase searching
  - New fuzzy search types
    - Automatic spelling correction
    - Trigram matching
    - Regex word match
    - Accent stripping

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