Searching from the address box

kjmora · Post by **kjmora** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:50 am

When using IE 7, a user can type, for example, "rentals" in the address box and no site being found, a search on rentals will be done in Google. Is there a way to duplicate this behavior in PWB v. 2.10?

Post by **Scott** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:04 pm

We could add the functionality into PWB v2.10.8.

Currently you can only redirect to another page using the HTML error redirect, but this only redirects and does not search.

[HTMLError]
404=http://www.google.com

PWB v2.10.7 includes a search bar. Add the following to the PWB INI file to enable it.

ShowSearchBar=True
SearchBarText=Search
SearchBarPage=http://www.google.com/search?q=%SEARCH%

--Scott

kjmora · Post by **kjmora** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:24 am

Thank you for the information. We'll try that for now, but would love to see that functionality in a future version.

Post by **Scott** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:48 am

In PWB v2.10.8 the following has been changed.

Changed [HTMLError] codes to include %SEARCH% macro.

Example:

[HTMLError]
2148270085=http://www.google.com/search?q=%SEARCH%

Using the above example, when a URL typed in is not found, PWB will b redirected to the URL and the %SEARCH% will be replaced by what was typed into the Address box without the leading HTTP:// if typed in.

--Scott

Post by **Scott** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:19 pm

Related HRESULT nagivation error status codes can be found here.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa768365.aspx

--Scott