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Where does an OpenSearch OSDD document go?

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It should be stored in the root directory of you website. You just add a link to it in your webpages like this:

<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Stack Overflow" href="/opensearch.xml" />

Micah 2008-12-31 21:57:27

Answer 2

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The descriptor document can be hosted just about anywhere, as long as its available to the browser on the client machine.

As Micah pointed out, in the web page you want to "advertise" your search capability, simply add a reference to the OSDD in your HTML HEAD:

<html>
  <head>
    ...
    <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="[display name]" href="[path to OSDD]" />
    ...
  </head>
  ...

What this does is have browsers highlight the search area (e.g., in Firefox, blue glow, in MSIE, the button is highlighted orange, in Chrome, I believe the browser just adds the search provider without asking you) to let an end user know that this site has search capability that the browser can integrate with.

You can create your OSDD file here http://customsearchprovider.appspot.com (though it's really quite simple).

Incidentally, BugMeNot.com, Craigslist etc does not automatically add search providers to your browser (it hasn't done it for me after I've visited it several times). I suspect it must have been added manually, or perhaps imported from another browser when you first installed Chrome.

Jack Leow 2009-12-23 13:31:52

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