Could HN search special case "HTTP"?

2 points by yawpitch 6 hours ago

I have a particular interest in http servers at the moment, but any search that includes “http” will return every story that has an http[s] link in the URL.

Could search terms that are network protocols either not return links that start with the network protocol? Or is there a way I’m not seeing of excluding just the protocol portion of the URL from matching (I’d want URLs that included “http” elsewhere in the URL, for instance).

Tomte 6 hours ago

What‘s your problem? Typing http in the search field at the bottom results in https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http

All results have http in their titles.

  • solardev 4 hours ago

    I think the OP is tyring to filter out hits that have HTTP in the URL (which is all of them), so they need a way to exclude the URL field from the search.