WSDB: Overview

About WSDB (WaterSprings DataBase)

WSDB provides a simple keyword search of Internet Drafts and RFCs.
Its search result shows documents whose title and/or authors contain the keywords.
The result also shows their ancestor and descendant documents in the same row.

WSDB periodically collects the latest RFC, IEN and ID index files and updates its internal database.
When it receives a query, it looks up the database to respond with a table of matched documents.

Internal Scripts

WSDB consists of the following two scripts. They are written in Perl6.

1. wsdb-update -- update the WSDB database.
- The wsdb-update utility is launched periodically to collect the latest RFC, IEN and ID index files.
  If one or more index files is updated, it updates the WSDB database.
- The WSDB database consists of two files in the plain text format;
  One contains a table of documents in the order of "Newer to Older" and
  the other contains a table of documents in the order of "Older to Newer."
2. wsdb-cgi -- respond to query with a table of documents.
- When the wsdb-cgi utility receives a query, it searches one of two WSDB database file and
  responds with a table of documents whose title or authors list matches the received keywords.
- There are two versions of WSDB CGI.
  At first, it is developed in Perl6. Then, it is rewritten in Perl5 to improve the response time.
- This CGI runs at http://www.watersprings.org/wsdb/.

Additionally, WSDB has the following two scripts. They are written in Perl6 to use libraries developed for wsdb-update and wsdb-cgi.

3. wslist-rfc
- The wslist-rfc utility generates an HTML index file containing indexes of RFC, STD, BCP, FYI and IEN from the files in the RFC repository.
- The output can bee seen at http://www.watersprings.org/pub/rfc/.
4. wslist-id
- The wslist-id utility generates an HTML index file containing an index of Internet Drafts from the files in the Internet Drafts repository.
- The output can bee seen at http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/.