"Pupkin" <spamagnet@dorrk.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e88942f67e3f2959896b0@news.giganews.com...
> Hi,
>
> I was excited to use Microsoft Index Server, built into IIS, to set-up a
> site-search function, but it doesn't, by default, parse the ASP code of
> the pages it indexes. This makes it sort of a weak option for a site
> that uses variables to populate content in a templated site!
>
> For example, I use variables to fill in the meta tags, and every page
> shows up in the search results as "UNTITLED." The problems go much
> deeper than that, but that's just an example.
>
> Anyone know if there's a trick to make it parse the code before it
> indexes? I mean, it's IIS, right? It should be able to parse ASP code!
> (You would think.) It seems to know not to index the ASP code, or else
> the contents of the variables would still be indexed, so it seems like
> it has the potential to parse the code before indexing.
>
> Thanks.