Nali City Firefox Search Plug-In

RaptoR · May 20, 2004

Veteran Nali City staffer Luquado sends news that he has created a Nali City search plugin for the popular open-source browser Mozilla Firefox. The plug-in allows you to search through Unreal maps on Nali City using the search tool that comes with Firefox.

This plugin allows you to type a map name into Firefox's search box and promptly loads up Nali City's search page with your results. Simple and slick.

It's tested on Firefox 0.8, but I see no reason why it shouldn't work on some prior versions. Just visit my website and install the plugin. Restart Firefox, then click on the magnifying glass to show the drop down list of search engines. Voila!

http://www.rustedball.com/ncsearch.html

Would you like to see more Mozilla plug-ins for other BU features such as FileWorks and the forums? Hit the comments link and let us know!

Jaysyn · May 20, 2004

Awesome

I just installed it & it works great, way to go Luquado!

p.s. If you are still using IE you've got to try FireFox out & see what you are missing.

GRAF1K · May 20, 2004

$\o/$

[EDIT]Of COURSE I would like to see more plugins, esp. for the forums.[/EDIT]

SanitysEdge · May 20, 2004

You do not need to restart firefox.
$\o/$

Swedix · May 20, 2004

$\o/$ Horray for Open Source

haarg · May 20, 2004

These are pretty easy to make. I made three for BU News, Articles, and Forums. I don't have anywhere to upload them, so I'll just post the files here.
The have to be extracted to "{FireFox Install Dir}\searchplugins", and the browser will have to be restarted.

Firefox can only do 'GET' searches from it's bar, and FileWorks will only accept 'POST' queries, so a search plugin cannot be made for that at this point.

luquado · May 20, 2004

Haarg said:
Firefox can only do 'GET' searches from it's bar, and FileWorks will only accept 'POST' queries, so a search plugin cannot be made for that at this point.

That's how Nali City was, you need to use something like the developer extension in Fireworks to sniff out the POST code and tinker with it to turn it into a GET.

haarg · May 20, 2004

luquado said:
That's how Nali City was, you need to use something like the developer extension in Fireworks to sniff out the POST code and tinker with it to turn it into a GET.

I tried that. Specifying the parameters as GET parameters didn't work. I'm guessing that the FileWorks code only checks POST parameters.

luquado · May 20, 2004

I dunno why, but I know I had to tinker with the order of the parameters...

Oh well, mebbe I'll give FileWorks a shot too.

RegularX · May 21, 2004

Nifty.

I'll get an unrealmods.org plugin this weekend

Swedix · Jun 16, 2004

I just tried this plug-in with Firefox 0.9 and it works without problem.

Can anyone create a plug-in for searching Fileworks?

haarg · Jun 16, 2004

Swedix said:
Can anyone create a plug-in for searching Fileworks?

I can't be completely sure, but I don't think it can be done unless they change the FileWorks code some.

Maybe RaptoR could let us know if FileWorks search could be changed to support GET, or if I'm wrong about it only supporting POST.

luquado · Jun 19, 2004

Haarg said:
I can't be completely sure, but I don't think it can be done unless they change the FileWorks code some.

Maybe RaptoR could let us know if FileWorks search could be changed to support GET, or if I'm wrong about it only supporting POST.

It's not that it's POST, since NC was POST and it took a little hacking to work. It's that it's something else. I tried everything and it still won't cut it, almost like there's a referrer check in effect...?

I've got it ready to go otherwise, it just doesn't work

Symbolikal · Nov 9, 2004

MMM...MONSTER BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do you get the others to work?
We need more! lol

Swedix · Nov 22, 2004

Another bump.

Are there a version for Firefox 1.0?
And I'm still interested in a plugin for BU's FileWorks if someone can create one.
Hey, take it as a challenege.

Zenny · Nov 22, 2004

Would you guys be interested in a ModWorks search bar, I could easily code one up if there was any interest?

haarg · Nov 22, 2004

I'm still pretty sure the FileWorks code requires the POST method while FireFox will only do GET, but I came up with an ugly hack to get around it. I made a HTML file that sits on the local computer and redirects GET queries to FileWorks using javascript.

To use this, extract the files to the FireFox\searchplugins folder. If you installed FireFox to the default location (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox), it should work. Otherwise, open bufileworks.src in a text editor and change file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/searchplugins/bufileworks.html to the relevant location for your computer.

Swedix · Nov 22, 2004

Haarg said:
I'm still pretty sure the FileWorks code requires the POST method while FireFox will only do GET, but I came up with an ugly hack to get around it. I made a HTML file that sits on the local computer and redirects GET queries to FileWorks using javascript.

To use this, extract the files to the FireFox\searchplugins folder. If you installed FireFox to the default location (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox), it should work. Otherwise, open bufileworks.src in a text editor and change file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/searchplugins/bufileworks.html to the relevant location for your computer.

Sweet Jesus, it works perfect. :tup:
Highly recomended to the community.

Thank you for taking your time to create this nice litle script, Haarg.

Symbolikal · Nov 22, 2004

Not working here.

haarg · Nov 22, 2004

Did you restart Firefox after installing it? Is Firefox installed in the default location? If not, what path did you enter in bufileworks.src?

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