[NUTCH-1676] Add rudimentary SSL support to protocol-http

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7
• Fix Version/s: 1.9
• Component/s: protocol
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Julien Nioche
• Reporter: Julien Nioche
• Created: 28/Nov/13 09:12
• Updated: 13/Mar/24 14:51
• Resolved: 16/May/14 13:40

Description

Adding https support to our http protocol would be a good thing even if it does not handle the security. This would save us from having to use the http-client plugin which is buggy in its current form.

Patch generated from https://github.com/Aloisius/nutch/commit/d3e15a1db0eb323ccdcf5ad69a3d3a01ec65762c#commitcomment-4720772

Needs testing...