TU/e search engine: V-spaces
The Technische Universiteit Eindhoven has a new search engine for their web site (which is a good thing, the old one was so ineffective I used to always use google with site:tue.nl), called V-spaces. It seems reasonably useful, so I wanted to make a Firefox keyword for it. Problem: the engine only works with http POST requests, not GET. According to this post, that should already be supported, but I don't see how. Anyway, I found a page with a different method: just use a javascript program, similar to my telephone guide keyword. The result is this link: V-spaces. Use it like this:
vsp technology
into your Firefox address bar (where you'd normally type www.tue.nl), and Firefox will go to the right V-spaces page.
- Right-click the link.
- Select Bookmark this link...
- Choose a suitable folder to put the link into.
- In the Bookmarks menu in your menu bar, find the link V-spaces that you've just created.
- Right click it.
- Select Properties.
- In the Keyword field, enter something like vsp.
vsp technology
into your Firefox address bar (where you'd normally type www.tue.nl), and Firefox will go to the right V-spaces page.
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After notifying the TU/e of this post, I received a notice saying that they implemented GET queries now, so this bookmarklet is kinda useless. Well, it was useful to learn how to do it.
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