[NUTCH-2648] Make configurable whether TLS/SSL certificates are checked by protocol plugins

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.15
• Fix Version/s: 1.16
• Component/s: protocol
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sebastian Nagel
• Created: 08/Oct/18 15:45
• Updated: 28/Jan/21 13:55
• Resolved: 09/Oct/18 13:03

Description

(see discussion in NUTCH-2647)

It should be possible to enable/disable TLS/SSL certificate validation centrally for all http/https protocol plugins by a single configuration property.

Some use cases (eg. crawl a site to detect insecure pages) may require that TLS/SSL certificates are checked. Also a broader, unrestricted web crawl may skip sites with invalid certificates as this is can be an indicator for the quality of a site.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #388