[TYPO3-dev] config.index_externals = 1 don't work

[François Suter]

Hi Stefan,

> in TSref documentation I found following line:
>
> index_externals | boolean | If set, external media linked to on the
> pages is indexed as well.
>
> I think this is very confusing. What is "external media"? For myself
> "external media" are files which are NOT on my own server.
>
> After many tests I found out that activation of index_externals only
> allow caching of LOCAL files. So...what do you meen with "external"?

My understanding is that "external" means "not part of the page's 
content" in this case, so the result you're observing is correct. I 
agree that the description may be a bit misleading.

I'm not sure, but I think the crawler is able to follow true external links.

Cheers

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Francois Suter
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