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Proxycustom, Proxyreload, Proxystylesheet – Google Search Appliance Protocol Reference User Manual

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Google Search Appliance: Search Protocol Reference

Request Format

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proxycustom

Specifies custom XML tags to be included in the XML results. The default XSLT stylesheet uses these
values for this parameter: , . The proxycustom parameter can be used in custom
XSLT applications. See “Custom HTML” on page 52 for more information.

This parameter is disabled if the search request does not contain the proxystylesheet tag. If custom
XML is specified, search results are not returned with the search request.

Meta tag names or values must be double URL-encoded (see “Appendix B: URL Encoding” on page 107).

Default value: Empty string

proxyreload

Instructs the Google Search Appliance when to refresh the XSL stylesheet cache. A value of 1 indicates
that the Google Search Appliance should update the XSL stylesheet cache to refresh the stylesheet
currently being requested. This parameter is optional. By default, the XSL stylesheet cache is updated
approximately every 15 minutes. (See “Custom HTML” on page 52 for more information.) Take note that
updating the XSL stylesheet cache increases latency for the search request and should not be used in
production environment with high load or during performance testing.

Default value: 0

proxystylesheet

If the value of the output parameter is xml_no_dtd, the output format is modified by the
proxystylesheet value as follows:

See “Custom HTML” on page 52 for more details. Notice that a valid front end and the policies defined
for it are determined by the client parameter. If the proxystylesheet value is an empty string (""), an
error is returned.

Default value: N/A

q

Search query as entered by the user.

See “Query Terms” on page 22 for additional query features.

Default value: N/A

Proxystylesheet Value

Output Format

Omitted

Results are in XML format.

Front End Name

Results are in Custom HTML format. The XSL stylesheet associated
with the specified Front End is used to transform the output.