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  BackStreet Browser - A high-speed, multi-threading website download and viewing program.

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Web search configuration file

A web search configuration file Backstreet.srh.cfg is used to define the list of search engines which BackStreet Browser will offer you when you call its "Web search" feature. In this file search engines are listed (one engine per line) accompanied with additional parameters. Each parameter is in quotes; parameters are separated with commas.

Lines in the file BackStreet.srh.cfg look like this:

"international","Google","http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q={SEARCH_KEYWORD}&num=100","1",".*(http:\/\/www\..*)","google"
"international","Lycos","http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?ca=o&query={SEARCH_KEYWORD}","1","","(lycos|lygo\.com|.*\?.*)"

This table describes the parameters specified in a line of the file:

# Description Example
1 Search Engine Type - not used by BackStreet Browser "international"
2 Search engine name "Google"
3 Search engine URL with the keyword placeholder http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q={SEARCH_KEYWORD}&num=100
4 Optional Parameter - not used by BackStreet Browser now, for future use. "1"
5 Regular expression - "allow" filter. Download will be allowed for those URLs that contain a chain of characters which corresponds to this expression. ".*(http:\/\/www\..*)"
6 Regular expression - "restrict" filter. Download will be restricted for those URLs that contain a chain of characters which corresponds to this expression. "Google"