Could HN search special case "HTTP"?

[yawpitch]

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).

[solardev]

I think you can use the HN API to restrict the search to only the title field:

https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=http&restrictSear...

[yawpitch → solardev]

Ahh, good to know as a workaround.

[naveen99]

Try this: https://hn.garglet.com/form/textSearch?input6=http+protocol+...

And this:

https://hn.garglet.com/similar/stories/6012525

[Tomte]

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.

[yawpitch → Tomte]

Yes, but it’s pot luck if the term appears in the title at all… change from Popularity to Date and you’re just looking at every post that has an http/https URL, regardless of title.

[solardev → Tomte]

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.

[yawpitch → solardev]

Exactly.

[code_Whisperer]

How about searching for:

http%3A

[yawpitch → code_Whisperer]

Nice idea, but same results and also breaks formatting (on iOS Safari, at least).