Could HN search special case "HTTP"?
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).
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...
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.
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.
How about searching for:
http%3A