Indexing of external links in repositories

Hello,
I have a doubt regarding the concept of indexing of external links in FS repositories. When we set indexContentOfExternalLink and showWithoutDatasource
to true how does this actually work?The help documentation does not provide much information .
I have a FS rep where I have links to some external pages.
a)Will search pick up terms in the target of these links(i.e in these pages)
b)Also if the target is a html page which has further hyperlinks on that , will a search for those hyper links work ?
This feature is also not returning any results for links now ..
I dont want to use a web Rep for this .
Hope someone can clear this up.
Rgds

Had seen somewhere that if the target has javascript it is not picked up. But the target of the link is a html page which has only href tags , and None of these are also picked up by search.
Only the link is picked up by Trex jst like it displays normal files.Also would Trex pick up links to docs on other FS repositories ?
There are no crawler errors.
Inviting any comments on this , because I quite lonely on this thread.
Rgds

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