[NUTCH-3039] Failure to handle ftp:// URLs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.19
• Fix Version/s: 1.21
• Component/s: plugin, protocol
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Sebastian Nagel
• Reporter: Sebastian Nagel
• Created: 11/Apr/24 11:28
• Updated: 11/Apr/24 11:38

Description

Nutch fails to handle ftp:// URLs:

• URLNormalizerBasic returns the empty string because creating the URL instance fails with a MalformedURLException:

  echo "ftp://ftp.example.com/path/file.txt" \
    | nutch normalizerchecker -stdin -normalizer urlnormalizer-basic

• fetching a ftp:// URL with the protocol-ftp plugin enabled also fails due to a MalformedURLException:

  bin/nutch parsechecker -Dplugin.includes='protocol-ftp|parse-tika' \
     "ftp://ftp.example.com/path/file.txt"
  ...
  Exception in thread "main" org.apache.nutch.protocol.ProtocolNotFound: java.net.MalformedURLException
          at org.apache.nutch.protocol.ProtocolFactory.getProtocol(ProtocolFactory.java:113)
  ...

The issue is caused by NUTCH-2429:

• we do not provide a dedicated URL stream handler for ftp URLs
• but also do not pass ftp:// URLs to the standard JVM handler

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #812