Various URIs that can be read / written in HPSearch

HPSearch can allow reading from Web site (http:// and ftp://) and can read and write from files (file://), sockets (socket://) and topics (topic://).

Usage

File
file:///u/hgadgil/dataFiles/data.txt
Reads / Writes to local file /u/hgadgil/dataFiles/data.txt

Socket
socket://trex.ucs.indiana.edu:5000
Reads / Writes data from / to port 5000 on host trex.ucs.indiana.edu.

Web Server
http://trex.ucs.indiana.edu/~hgadgil/siesmic.txt
ftp://trex.ucs.indiana.edu/earthquakeData.txt
Reads data from remote file on web server on host trex.ucs.indiana.edu.

Topics
topic://niotcp://trex.ucs.indiana.edu:5000/CGL/GIS/PI/rawData
Reads / writes from / to the topic /CGL/GIS/PI/rawData by connecting to a NaradaBroker running on host trex.ucs.indiana.edu on port 3045 using the niotcp as the underlying transport medium.
If the broker host and port are not specified, then we try to use the default configured broker host/port.

Last Updated: Dec 13, 2005

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