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Web interface to the exploder archives

The MH mail folders in which the exploder archives reside are made publically accessible on the web via a symlink in the httpd DocumentRoot directory (/home/tarzan, see section §13.1):

   /home/tarzan/aips++/mail -> /export/aips++/Mail

The AIPS++ home page contains a link to an HTML document, $(AIPSDOCS)/html/email.html, which in turn contains links to email folder indexes generated by scanhtml (p). scanhtml invokes the MH scan command to produce an index and then converts it to HTML. scanhtml is invoked by aipsmail whenever it receives mail so the indexes are always current.

Apart from containing links to each item of exploder mail, the indexes also contain links to the currently installed copies of the exploder lists, and a link to a form which allows searching of the exploder archive.

The link to the exploder list is implemented via a unix symbolic link called list within the mail folder directory. For example

   /export/aips++/Mail/aips2-workers/list -> ../../master/etc/aips2-workers.list

Mail searching is implemented via a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script, pickhtml (p), which generates an HTML form to obtain options for another CGI script, scanpick (p). scanpick invokes the MH pick command to search the archive folder and converts the pick output to an HTML index. The CGI scripts are web-enabled via symlinks in the httpd ScriptAlias directory (/home/tarzan/httpd/cgi-bin):

   /home/tarzan/httpd/cgi-bin/pickhtml -> /export/aips++/master/etc/pickhtml
   /home/tarzan/httpd/cgi-bin/scanpick -> /export/aips++/master/etc/scanpick

Refer to the AIPS++ email exploder web page for a list of currently active exploders.